Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

[Al Davis <ad82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 19 September 2005 11:22 pm, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> Regarding the speed of Java, it's as fast as C++ (Not C) if
> and only if it is run as a VM server ........

Do you have a reference?

C++ should be as fast as C.  It is possible to hide inefficiency 
in C, but it is also possible to use the better abstraction 
that C++ offers to improve speed without sacrificing 
maintainability.

In Java, I don't see that ability to tune that C++ has.  I also 
don't see the ability to use the abstraction to improve speed, 
like you can in C++.

The approach I like is to do engines and speed critical stuff in 
a compiled language like C++, that provides high level 
abstraction and also lets you fine tune, and do user interface 
in an interpreted language like python or ruby.  The engine is 
strictly text based.  The user interface passes messages to it.