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- From: ahinds@catsup.stanford.edu (Alexander Scott Hinds)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:47:33 GMT
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- In-reply-to: "Dana P'Simer, Jr."'s message of Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:22:20 -0500
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- In article <314CACBC.503E@mindspring.com> "Dana P'Simer, Jr." <danap@mindspring.com> writes:
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- > such a Java. There is just too much invested in C++ as a platform and no Java Virtual Machine will ever be as efficient as
- > nativly compiled C++. One might then say that Java could be compiled but you still have the problem of this Garbage
- > Collection which, while it might be VERY efficient as garbage collection goes, will certainly be a performance problem
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- Every study I've seen has demonstrated that even the best C++ programs
- can't garbarge collect as well as even a mediocrely automated gc....
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