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- From: mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark VanTassel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:43:32 GMT
- Organization: Barfield, Cauthen and Associates
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- "Alan L. Lovejoy" <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:
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- >Bzzzt! Not according to the benchmarks I've done. Go benchmark the factorial or fibonacci
- >functions (implemented recursively) in both C and a good Smalltalk. You are in for a big
- >surprise.
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- You're not seriously suggesting that a fibonacci series be programmed
- recursively, are you??? Have you looked at the number of operations
- involved in calculating, say, the 1000th term as vs a standard looping
- approach?
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- I don't think this is a valid benchmark... (and I too fail to see how
- Smalltalk can be faster than C++ except perhaps in bizarre special
- cases)
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- - /\/\ark \/anTassel (mvantassel@teambca.com)
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