Why is Keyhole for Windows? Is Google going to do ANYTHING with Linux?
Maybe because they didn't write it? They bought the company, remember?
Now, I may be wrong since I haven't actually tried this product, not even the one from the previous company, so I don't know if the software is the same... Maybe someone can shed some light on this:)
Yeah, that also happens to me with some old games - not because of the crappy graphics I think (at least it doesn't seem to be the main reason in some cases), just because it seems boring as hell. I don't have half the patience for games I used to have, is that what you felt too?
Well, I still haven't understood why this game is so slow on old machines, just to give an example. Maybe it's very badly programmed, I don't know. It's great btw:)
I'm saying that for a typical moderately complex program made in both languages C will be faster than Java. Just as the same program made in C and C++ will tipically be slightly faster in C, but the code is also stightly more difficult to understand in some types of applications. Of course, if you're going to do "inline asm" in C and C++, the performance will be the same...
Those benchmarks seem like crap to me - the first four are supposed to be more or less equal for C and a Java JIT compiler, since from what I can see, they're just coding C in java (ie, no objects, just loops with variables of primitive types, etc).
The I/O benchmark is just ridiculous, since it's... I/O bound by definition. It just proves that most of those languages are not the bottleneck when doing I/O:)
For what kind of applications? If you are talking about pure speed, java is certainly not even 75% as fast as C... If you want to compete with some algorithm let me know - I'll do the C implementation and you'll do the java implementation, and then we'll see the difference...
The answer to archiving the required volumes is producing less volumes. Case in point... we recently spent a week or so at work optimising a process that was I/O bound. The bugger took 10 hours to run. Although purchasing faster disks, converting to RAID0, and other techniques did whittle down the execution time to about 5 hours, the final solution was to redefine the process to reduce the actual IO (removed a COBOL sorting stage in the process), and the process is now 2 hours.
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I think it's more likely that he just forgot it... If it gets added in a few minutes/hours, it'll be enlightening :)
Great game indeed :)
Geez man, one of the best "situational jokes" I've seen on slashdot :)
I hadn't even noticed it was our friend Roland submitting the story until I saw your post, which even made it funnier...
It's been years that I've had my first laptop. Sun seems to be years late in joining this revolution :)
saying the machine was designed to let engineers and scientists perform demanding computer tasks away from their desks.
Yeah, that's what laptops are for...
Maybe because they didn't write it? They bought the company, remember?
Now, I may be wrong since I haven't actually tried this product, not even the one from the previous company, so I don't know if the software is the same... Maybe someone can shed some light on this
Movies, maybe... but with books, your imagination can play a great part :)
Yeah, that also happens to me with some old games - not because of the crappy graphics I think (at least it doesn't seem to be the main reason in some cases), just because it seems boring as hell. I don't have half the patience for games I used to have, is that what you felt too?
Whether it's getting cremated by my computer
Can you elaborate on this variant of chess please? I would love to know more about it, and perhaps even play it with some people I know...
Thanks for that link, surfing from there gave me what may have been my most interesting reads on wikipedia ever :)
a rity
Some interesting articles I read in the process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singul
I have opened RSA's site without problems. I live in Portugal.
Wow, one of the first girl jokes I've seen here on /. ;)
Well, I still haven't understood why this game is so slow on old machines, just to give an example. Maybe it's very badly programmed, I don't know. It's great btw :)
Yeah, it would look even MORE credible :P
Yeah, but the programmer can do:
ref = NULL;
This will solve the cases where the leak is the application's fault. But it won't solve the one's which are the GC's fault (if they exist)...
Would you want to be interrupted in the middle of your game by the garbage collector? If you have used java programs you know what I mean...
Maybe it's time for Id Software to start making their games with Java then. I think you know what I mean :)
I'm saying that for a typical moderately complex program made in both languages C will be faster than Java. Just as the same program made in C and C++ will tipically be slightly faster in C, but the code is also stightly more difficult to understand in some types of applications. Of course, if you're going to do "inline asm" in C and C++, the performance will be the same...
Well, if you talk about "we", I think "we" need more penetration outside the internet...
Those benchmarks seem like crap to me - the first four are supposed to be more or less equal for C and a Java JIT compiler, since from what I can see, they're just coding C in java (ie, no objects, just loops with variables of primitive types, etc).
:)
The I/O benchmark is just ridiculous, since it's... I/O bound by definition. It just proves that most of those languages are not the bottleneck when doing I/O
For what kind of applications? If you are talking about pure speed, java is certainly not even 75% as fast as C... If you want to compete with some algorithm let me know - I'll do the C implementation and you'll do the java implementation, and then we'll see the difference...
:)
Nevertheless, that was a good reply to a troll
Of course they do, VLC is a GPL license project...
I totally agree with you, which means that you totally misunderstood the intention of my post...
The answer to archiving the required volumes is producing less volumes. Case in point... we recently spent a week or so at work optimising a process that was I/O bound. The bugger took 10 hours to run. Although purchasing faster disks, converting to RAID0, and other techniques did whittle down the execution time to about 5 hours, the final solution was to redefine the process to reduce the actual IO (removed a COBOL sorting stage in the process), and the process is now 2 hours.
I'm sure I could do that in about 1 hour...
Have you heard about "Iraq"?
AHAHA best tic tac toe game ever... I'm so stupid ;)