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- From: ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Mike Zorn)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 03:19:18 -0700
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- In <4kbfn8$1bu@news1.is.net> mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark VanTassel) writes:
-
- >"Alan L. Lovejoy" <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:
- >>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.
- >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?
- >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)
- True, the Fibonacci and factorial are not good candidates for a
- recursive algorithm. (They're just taught that way because it's one
- of the few recursive problems that we can understand in first-year
- college courses.)
- On the other hand, almost any interesting program, compiled & run
- in different languages, should be able to give a good idea of how the
- languages compare. For my part, I'd also like to look at the source
- code, and know how long it took to write (and debug) the two programs.
- So, Alan, I guess you'll have to come up with a program for
- Ackermann's Function in C++ and Smalltalk to satisfy the rest of us.
-
- Mike Zorn ozma@kaiwan.com | Thought for the day:
- http://www.kaiwan.com/~ozma/ | Java is C--
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