[dundee] Java Benchmarks

[Barry Carr]

James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:21:15 +0000 (GMT)
> Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, welcome to java world.
>>
>> I've seen some interesting benchmarks from the new java.... shall
>> we convert the world to java... ?? I think we should...
> 
> I've been doing a lot of work for the Gentoo Java team this past month.
> I've rewritten the eclass I wrote a couple of years ago to build
> Eclipse plugins from source using Portage. That's involved bumping and
> adding a lot of other Java packages too. I haven't really written any
> Java since university but I think it's true to say that many of the
> Gentoo Java team only have a passing interest in the language itself! I
> still like the language but I'm not sure what I would use it for at the
> moment.

I have to say that I'm no fan of Java the language, it need a drastic overhaul. But I'm mightily 
impressed with the JVM and HotSpot.

Cheers
Barry