From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T05:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, fix the Java program

On 8/8/06, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Precisely.

It reminds me of Mark Twain's observation about how stupid the French
were, since he could never make them understand their own language!

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