From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T21:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java

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On 7/28/06, Roland Schmitt <Roland.Schmitt@web.de> wrote:
>
> Peter Hickman wrote:
> > Isak Hansen wrote:
> >> When people want 'speed' they care about how fast the code runs, not
> >> JVM startup time..
> >>
> >> Your benchmarks are utterly irrelevant, sorry.
> >>
> >>
> >> Isak
> >>
> >>
> > Interesting, so just how to you run a Java program without the JVM
> > start-up time?
> >
> > And if you can't run a Java program without the JVM start-up then your
> > point is what exactly?
> >
> >
>
> It's like measuring database performance and including the startup time
> of the database server. Sure, mysql startup is faster then oracles, but
> does it make sense? I don't know...


And mysql is as fast as Oracle, even faster unless Oracle is very, very
well  tuned.
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But of course you do have your point.

Nevertheless startup times matters for some programms, so Peters post was
not useless, I feel he gets critizised a little bit too much for his post.

hang in there Peter
Cheers
Robert

Regards,
> Roland
>
>


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