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- From: plogan@teleport.com (Patrick Logan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: 7 Apr 1996 19:37:21 GMT
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- James Arendt (maelstrom@csnet.net) wrote:
-
- : However, with from what I've heard about the JIT compilers, Java will be
- : able to run close to if not the speed of C/C++.
-
- Also I would guess a lot of old and new compiler techniques from Lisp, ML,
- Self, etc. can be applied to a Java compiler. They cannot, at least as
- universally, be applied to a C++ compiler. There will be a lot of
- incentive over the next ten years for vendors to apply those
- techniques to Java at cut-throat prices to the consumer.
-
- The current Smalltalk vendors have so much on their plate and not
- enough of a market to fund what they could do in the way of
- optimizing delivery compilers while still providing every tool
- under the sun (Sun?) for development environments.
-
- There could be an order of magnitude or great number of vendors
- competing in the Java market. And several orders of magnitude
- more consumers to fund them. A reasonably capable language
- combined with a large market, could just bring a ton of venture
- capital to the problem.
-
- Yeah, I can suffer with Java for those benefits, if enough of
- them do not trickle down to the Smalltalk market.
-
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- Patrick Logan plogan@teleport.com
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