Just in case this ain't really a troll, or in case somebody wonders if this is true or not...
A graphic arstist design models in 3dstudio for example. But what he's really generating is just a file with vertex coordinates in it. If you load it in 3dStudio, you see a model because 3dstudio coders wrote a bunch of code to interpret the file, and have the computer draw a 3d representation of those coordinates.
Now if you program a game for example, you just gotta do the same job yourself. ie transform the coordiates into an object on screen, plus you gotta make it move, etc...
Can you imagine being a guitarist on stage at a show at a small venue, and all of a sudden the owner of the place gets a phone call that effectively stops the show?
Hey that would be an homage to Spinal Tap you clueless insensitive clod !
Here you see Java scoring 703 vs. C's 752 in a wide range of unbiased speed tests. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
Sorry but these tests ignore the area where java speed really sucks : the GUI, of course.
Who cares about the time it takes to concatenate strings or instantiate a class... the only thing you see as a user is the GUI. It's like that feeling you have when you just bought a new pc, everything seems to render much faster than before when you click menus etc (ok that's on windows;) except with java it's the opposite ! that simple thing makes java apps not pleasant to use to me.
However server side this is a different problem of course. I admit java has a real strength here, even if I hate using it.
(What I personally hate about java is that it I feel it turns what could be cool hacks into what I like to call a massively boring shit;) Maybe I didn't get enough into it to be able to fully appreciate it...
It is a rather common misconception that bytecode-compiled languages must necessarily be slower than native compiled languages. The opposite is actually true in many cases. If you are running your bytecode on some sort of interpreter, then yes, it will be slower, but typically bytecode is re-compiled to native code at runtime. When this happens, the compiler can perform all sorts of optimizations specific to the host machine, OS, and the exact library set in use, which would be impossible if the software were distributed as native code. Thus, the code actually ends up faster... in Java's case, it can approach the speed of C
Nice theory, now can you explain me why every java apps that I've run is at least 10x slower than their C equivalent ?
Add this to your must read list if it isn't there yet : Hyperion, and the fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Certainly the finest sci-fi books i've read for years.
Understanding comics is really a must read for everybody. Even if you don't like comics at all, there are some astonishing ideas disseminated in the book. To me, this guy is the RMS (or ESR ?) of comics. This is a sort of meta book on comics, what they are, why they talk to us, and (the really exiting part) where they could go from now, using modern medias. (ie : unlike a textbook, a web page has no borders and should probably be used in a different way.) And not only he talks about it, but he proves it !
Futhermore, one thing really shocked me in the book : how the use of comics to explain ideas is a real plus if it is well used. I do think that using this technique, McLoud could probably explain ASM to your grandma and she'd just say : "yeah easy". Just read it !
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
That's absolutly false. I just asked a friend of mine who is fond of WW2 history to be sure I wasn't mistaking. German tanks were better than anything that existed at the time.
Microft must have a very big stock of joypad that nobody wants to buy... I can't count the number of joysticks that died on the floor of my kid's room after too long fustrating sessions of "right, left, up, button, down... etc etc"
This game was very, very fustrating.
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If you take 42 of those things and make a beowulf cluster of those...something will happen !
It'll distorse the universe with nanowaves or something. Or maybe all the gameboys in the world will explode in astonishing Tetris music concert... I don't know.
But please, don't talk about this to George Bush
Well unless they have a paper from a judge or something proving they have the right to enter, I wouldn't let them in.
Think about it : if they can do that, what would stop me from doing the same thing at redmond ?
-- hello, i'm a shareware developper , I'm here to check all your computers to see if you're using some of my software. Please let me in, Mr Gates !
I don't live in the US so i'd like to know : How could MS force a firm to do a software audit ?
Can they decide themselves to pass the door and have a look at the licenses, or do you mean they can "influence" which enterprises should be audited ?
Anyway, what would they have to fear if they were using OSS ? The law is on their side...
Yeah right, Even an "OSS enterprise" (see, american humor:-) is probably using alot of not so free software.
This mentality of this guy you talk about sucks : The point is not to climb a mountain or something to prove yourself how strong you are, but just to do what you think you should, and want to do.
Actually it would be nice, I just love flashing ads and all... Plus we gotta find a way to..[BOOM BOOM BOOM] Hey everyone lay down ! I can hear RMS coming for us ! Everywhere thunders in the sky ! Just hope we have time to repe[KABOOM..]
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Just in case this ain't really a troll, or in case somebody wonders if this is true or not...
A graphic arstist design models in 3dstudio for example. But what he's really generating is just a file with vertex coordinates in it. If you load it in 3dStudio, you see a model because 3dstudio coders wrote a bunch of code to interpret the file, and have the computer draw a 3d representation of those coordinates.
Now if you program a game for example, you just gotta do the same job yourself. ie transform the coordiates into an object on screen, plus you gotta make it move, etc...
Can you imagine being a guitarist on stage at a show at a small venue, and all of a sudden the owner of the place gets a phone call that effectively stops the show? Hey that would be an homage to Spinal Tap you clueless insensitive clod !
Here you see Java scoring 703 vs. C's 752 in a wide range of unbiased speed tests. Do you have anything to back up your claim?
;) except with java it's the opposite ! that simple thing makes java apps not pleasant to use to me. ;) Maybe I didn't get enough into it to be able to fully appreciate it...
Sorry but these tests ignore the area where java speed really sucks : the GUI, of course.
Who cares about the time it takes to concatenate strings or instantiate a class... the only thing you see as a user is the GUI. It's like that feeling you have when you just bought a new pc, everything seems to render much faster than before when you click menus etc (ok that's on windows
However server side this is a different problem of course. I admit java has a real strength here, even if I hate using it.
(What I personally hate about java is that it I feel it turns what could be cool hacks into what I like to call a massively boring shit
It is a rather common misconception that bytecode-compiled languages must necessarily be slower than native compiled languages. The opposite is actually true in many cases. If you are running your bytecode on some sort of interpreter, then yes, it will be slower, but typically bytecode is re-compiled to native code at runtime. When this happens, the compiler can perform all sorts of optimizations specific to the host machine, OS, and the exact library set in use, which would be impossible if the software were distributed as native code. Thus, the code actually ends up faster... in Java's case, it can approach the speed of C
Nice theory, now can you explain me why every java apps that I've run is at least 10x slower than their C equivalent ?
Add this to your must read list if it isn't there yet : Hyperion, and the fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Certainly the finest sci-fi books i've read for years.
Understanding comics is really a must read for everybody. Even if you don't like comics at all, there are some astonishing ideas disseminated in the book. To me, this guy is the RMS (or ESR ?) of comics. This is a sort of meta book on comics, what they are, why they talk to us, and (the really exiting part) where they could go from now, using modern medias. (ie : unlike a textbook, a web page has no borders and should probably be used in a different way.) And not only he talks about it, but he proves it !
Futhermore, one thing really shocked me in the book : how the use of comics to explain ideas is a real plus if it is well used. I do think that using this technique, McLoud could probably explain ASM to your grandma and she'd just say : "yeah easy". Just read it !
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you should have read : <french-humor>And yes we french do have humour about ourselves, you bastard !</french-humor>
That's why most people don't like frenches : they always forget to click the preview button
And yes we french do have humour about ourselves, you bastard !
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
That's absolutly false. I just asked a friend of mine who is fond of WW2 history to be sure I wasn't mistaking. German tanks were better than anything that existed at the time.
Microft must have a very big stock of joypad that nobody wants to buy... I can't count the number of joysticks that died on the floor of my kid's room after too long fustrating sessions of "right, left, up, button, down ... etc etc"
This game was very, very fustrating.
If you take 42 of those things and make a beowulf cluster of those...something will happen !
It'll distorse the universe with nanowaves or something. Or maybe all the gameboys in the world will explode in astonishing Tetris music concert... I don't know.
But please, don't talk about this to George Bush
Well unless they have a paper from a judge or something proving they have the right to enter, I wouldn't let them in.
Think about it : if they can do that, what would stop me from doing the same thing at redmond ?
-- hello, i'm a shareware developper , I'm here to check all your computers to see if you're using some of my software. Please let me in, Mr Gates !
I don't live in the US so i'd like to know : How could MS force a firm to do a software audit ? Can they decide themselves to pass the door and have a look at the licenses, or do you mean they can "influence" which enterprises should be audited ? :-) is probably using alot of not so free software.
Anyway, what would they have to fear if they were using OSS ? The law is on their side...
Yeah right, Even an "OSS enterprise" (see, american humor
This mentality of this guy you talk about sucks : The point is not to climb a mountain or something to prove yourself how strong you are, but just to do what you think you should, and want to do.
Actually it would be nice, I just love flashing ads and all... Plus we gotta find a way to ..[BOOM BOOM BOOM] Hey everyone lay down ! I can hear RMS coming for us ! Everywhere thunders in the sky ! Just hope we have time to repe[KABOOM..]
futhermore PuTTY seems to handle emacs very nicely, and have no stupid windows menu that prevent Alt from working..
Everyone will soon be able to see those scrambled channels on TV without the need of an exotic pc configuration.
Thanx bill !