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Java Faster Than C++?
jg21 writes "The Java platform has a stigma of being a poor performer, but these new performance benchmark tests suggest otherwise. CS major Keith Lea took time out from his studies at student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York's Tech Valley to take the benchmark code for C++ and Java from Doug Bagley's now outdated (Fall 2001) "Great Computer Language Shootout" and run the tests himself. His conclusions include 'no one should ever run the client JVM when given the choice,' and 'Java is significantly faster than optimized C++ in many cases.' Very enterprising performance benchmarking work. Lea is planning next on updating the benchmarks with VC++ compiler on Windows, with JDK 1.5 beta, and might also test with Intel C++ Compiler. This is all great - the more people who know about present-day Java performance, the better.""
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Java might have finally caught up with the speed, but Swing is still the ugliest GUI out there.
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more guys like this, a few less billyonerror/stock markup FraUD softwar gangster felons, & the wwworld would be a better place.
HELSINKI, Finland, June 13 - If Tim Berners-Lee had decided to patent his idea in 1989, the Internet would be a different place.
Instead, the World Wide Web became free to anyone who could make use of it. Many of the entrepreneurs and scientists who did use it became rich, among them Jeffrey P. Bezos ( Amazon.com), Jerry Yang ( Yahoo), Pierre Omidyar ( eBay) and Marc Andreessen (Netscape).
But not Mr. Berners-Lee, a British scientist working at a Geneva research laboratory at the time. That is why some people think it is fitting - or about time - that on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee will finally be recognized, with the award of the world's largest technology prize, the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The prize, valued at 1 million euros ($1.2 million) is supported by the Finnish government and private contributors.
The Internet has many fathers: Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who came up with a system to let different computer networks interconnect and communicate; Ray Tomlinson, the creator of e-mail and the "@" symbol; Ted Nelson, who coined the term hypertext; and scores of others.
But only one person conceived of the World Wide Web (originally, Mr. Berners-Lee called it a "mesh" before changing it to a "web"). Before him, there were no "browsers," nothing known as "hypertext markup language," no "www" in any Internet address, no "U.R.L.'s," or uniform resource locators.
Because he and his colleague, Robert Cailliau, a Belgian, insisted on a license-free technology, today a Gateway computer with a Linux operating system and a browser made by Netscape can see the same Web page as any other personal computer, system software or Internet browser.
If his employer at the time, CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, had sought royalties, Mr. Berners-Lee said he thought the world would have 16 different "Webs" on the Internet today.
"Goodness knows, there were plenty of hypertext systems before that didn't interoperate," he said in an interview on Sunday as three days of award ceremonies began here.
"There would have been a CERN Web, a Microsoft one, there would have been a Digital one, Apple's HyperCard would have started reaching out Internet roots," he said. "And all of these things would have been incompatible."
Software patenting today, Mr. Berners-Lee said, has run amok. In April, Microsoft was awarded a United States patent for the use of short, long or double-clicks on the same button of a hand-held computer to start applications, according to a report earlier this month on eWeek.com. At the same time, Microsoft said last week that it was appealing a $521 million judgment - the second-biggest patent-infringement award - won by a Chicago company called Eolas Technologies over plug-in applications in Internet browsers.
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...but accordiing to the unbiased and objective Microsoft study, Java under Linux on a 3090 mainframe is still more expensive to run than NT Server 5 on a whitebox machine with dot net. What do they say to that? Hell, I'll stick with coding in whitespace. What do y'all think of this routine: K
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Why are you comparing them to each others?
One the other hand, the price of Coffee has gone up at Starbucks. Damned Sun Microsystems.
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Sadly, I'm once again seriously disappointed in java.
Bah. In Russia Java is disappointed by you!