Expressive programming language? Was: [Gllug] Speaker Suggestion

[Xander Harkness]

Doug Winter wrote:

>On Thu 08 Jan Richard Jones wrote:
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>>As in not just reference counting.  If you're reference counting,
>>you're suffering a time and space overhead on many common operations.
>>Java (for all its sins), ML, Lisp, Haskell, etc. include garbage
>>collectors which don't suffer such problems, and are consequently more
>>efficient - more efficient even than allocating everything by hand.
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>It seems efficiency is subjective in that case :)
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>Theoretically optimal garbage collecting is hugely overrated.  I've had
>vast amounts of grief with Java's supposedly wonderful GC - it's got a
>whole range of algorithms, all of which suck at some workloads.
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Not being a java programmer and hence this might be a very naive question.

Would it be possible to compile the java using gcj.  I have seen eclipse 
compiled with gcj and it loads much faster and looks very nice indeed.

I know that some of the java portal servers are now compiling the java 
using gcj before running the code and I have heard reports of these 
running up to four times faster than standard.

Kind regards
Xander

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