From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" Date: 2006-07-28T20:57:57+09:00 Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java > From: Isak Hansen [mailto:isak.hansen@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:15 PM > When people want 'speed' they care about how fast the code runs, not > JVM startup time.. Of course each Benchmark is to be taken with a lot of caution, but I doubt the JVM takes more than 13 seconds to start, even on a slow machine. cheers Simon