<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>benchmarks....<br><br>I think the future is assembly code ;-)...<br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 8/7/08, Iain Barnett <i><iainspeed@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Iain Barnett <iainspeed@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Java Benchmarks<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Tuesday, 8 July, 2008, 4:35 PM<br><br><pre>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all<br><br>Java is near the top on most of the tests, but most languages suffer <br>from perception problems. "Perl is dead" is a classic, and just look <br><br>at Ruby in the benchmarks but it gets all the cool press.<br><br>My money for the longterm is Lisp, Haskell, and Perl6 (if it ever <br>gets finished!
:)<br><br><br>Iain<br><br><br><br>On 8 Jul 2008, at 2:31 pm, James Le Cuirot wrote:<br><br>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:21:15 +0000 (GMT)<br>> Lee Hughes <toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br>><br>>> Wow, welcome to java world.<br>>><br>>> I've seen some interesting benchmarks from the new java.... shall<br>>> we convert the world to java... ?? I think we should...<br>><br>> I've been doing a lot of work for the Gentoo Java team this past <br>> month.<br>> I've rewritten the eclass I wrote a couple of years ago to build<br>> Eclipse plugins from source using Portage. That's involved bumping and<br>> adding a lot of other Java packages too. I haven't really written any<br>> Java since university but I think it's true to say that many of the<br>> Gentoo Java team only have a passing interest in the language <br>> itself! I<br>> still like the language but I'm not sure what I would use it for at
<br>> the<br>> moment.<br>><br>> James<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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