From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T00:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java


Kroeger, Simon (ext) wrote:
> > 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

Startup time varies with the classes that are being loaded,  this hello
world comparison is a  wild assed guess
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=hello&lang=all