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- From: krendl@vai.co.at (Helmut Krendl)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 07:01:44 GMT
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- In article <316971B0.FEF@amd.com>, "Paul G. Schaaf, Jr." <paul.schaaf@amd.com> writes:
- >
- > Try his experiment and you will see a set of problems for which the speed of
- > Smalltalk compares to that of c/c++. You may dismiss this set of problems as
- > "bizarre", but as the size of that set increases, so does its importance.
- >
- > Many (note that I am not saying all) c/c++ programmers claim that "Smalltalk
- > is slow," and therefore dismiss it. This is wrong for two reasons:
- > 1. If speed were the only measure of value we'd all
- > be programming in Assembler (or tuning c compiler-
- > generated Assembler).
- > 2. Smalltalk is much faster than many people think.
- >
- > The fact is that Smalltalk can do a few things faster than c/c++, and some
- > things as fast. I would also argue that most of the remaining things in
- > Smalltalk are not "significantly slower" than c/c++. This point is debatable
- > as it depends upon the requirement of your domain.
- >
- > It would be nice if we all had the resources to evaluate each of these
- > languages fairly. Smalltalk is shortchanged if the programmer writes only
- > c/c++-style code, just as c++ is shortchanged if the programmer writes only
- > c-style code.
- >
-
- Which things makes Smalltalk faster than c/c++ ?
- And which things are as fast ?
- Is some sample code available ?
-
- I am very interesting to make some tests and learn from this examples.
- Can someone post examples or post references to them ?
-
- bye,
-
- Helmut Krendl
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