From: Roland Schmitt <Roland.Schmitt@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T22:19:27+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java

Peter Hickman wrote:
> I'm not too sure that your analogy holds. It's not like I included the 
> time to turn on my computer, log in, get the command prompt and type in 
> the commands. Do you really think that it is unreasonable to include the 
> start up for the JVM when that what you have to do to run the program?
> 
> 
> 

But startup time for the computer and so on is the same regardless of 
executing a java or c or ruby program next... Sorry, my intention was 
not to criticize your statements and i think Robert is right here when 
he says:

 > I feel he gets critizised a little bit too much for his post.

But i think there are two valid viewpoints.
I'm a professional java developer, so at 8.00am i'm starting the Eclipse 
IDE and uses it until 6.00pm when i turn my computer of. In this case 
the startup-time for the java-vm is not of interest when the overall 
performance of Eclipse "is good enough".

The second scenario is yours: A relative small program where the 
startup-time of the vm is significant in relation to the overall time 
the programm is running.

Regards,
Roland