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Re: objective-c: how slow ?


From: Helge Hess
Subject: Re: objective-c: how slow ?
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 12:02:42 +0200

Chris Hanson wrote:
> There's no reason Java has to be slow -- that it is says more about
> Sun than it does about languages running on virtual machines, or
> about garbage collection, or about dynamic languages.

There are other reasons but the VM why Java is slow. One is that large
parts of the basic classes do extensive locking for no reason.
Take a look, many 'how to write fast Java' tutorials start by
reimplementing most basic classes ...

Greetings
  Helge
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