Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders,

On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:22, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:01, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 November 2005 03:00 pm, Steve Graegert wrote:
> > > What would be the rationale behind using C++ in .NET?
> >
> > C++/CLI is an ECMA standardization effort.
>
> Don't stare yourself blind at standards. The main issue is patents
>
> FWIW, I consider c++ to be one of the worst languages ever to not be
> designed. java in many ways is what C++ wanted to be, and with gcj's
> ability to compile to native code, it isn't that bad at performance

I'd think you'd not be given to folklore about program efficiency. 
Static compilation to native code as gcj (or conventional C++) does it 
is _not_ the best way to optimize performance. Java's so-called JIT 
(it's really on-demand) native code compilation has optimization 
opportunities not available when only static program analysis is 
possible.

For all practial purposes and for a sizeable majority of programs, Java 
is every bit as fast as C++ and what's more, the opportunities for 
optimization of C++ are more played-out than are those for Java, which 
is still improving its performance characteristics.


Randall Schulz