From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T15:05:46+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, fix the Java program

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:22:57AM +0900, Thomas E Enebo wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006, Jon Harrop defenestrated me:
> 
> > Only if by "vanilla" you mean optimised Java.
> 
>   Did you look at Isaac's implementation?  It is almost exactly the same it
> was before, but he is not printing out the latin squares as unicode (which
> none of the other impls are doing to my knowledge) and it is writing to
> a BufferedReader (which any Java programmer with a couple months of
> experience would/should do).  

Not to get embroiled in a nascent flamewar, or anything, but . . .

I don't think the fact that everyone in one language's community does
something that people in other languages' communities don't so they can
get better performance makes what they're doing any less an
optimization.  It just makes it an exceedingly common optimization (and
might indicate that language implementation defaults should be changed).

Then again, maybe not.

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