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Originally Posted by DaFlake
Many systems are running JAVA code now and running it well. As a JAVA programmer I can attest to this. Even the military is using it on... wait for it...
MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS!   I won't even bring up all the sites that are running JSP or servlets to do their business. |
Oh, of course, if military is using it, it must be blinding fast. Is Ferrari faster than HUMVEE? It is. Military is still using HUMVEEs. For different requirements there are different solutions, there're many problems where the computational speed is not an object or better achieved thru faster hardware than faster software.
You intentionally ignoring my point that those systems you're talking about (let alone servers processing jsp) don't run on a Samsung S3C6410 processors, right?
Also, how the military using java changes the fact that the objective code runs faster than the code which has to be translated into objective code in VM? But then again, if it's military, Turing's computer science does not apply to them, heck, they might even have their own pi.
PS. I felt the need to append my message -- in no way I intended to ridicule military, just the argument that if military is using something then it's fast. I know without military project there would have been no internet and I've supplied software to the very smart folks at Northrop Grumman and their clients (and have a letter of recommendation to attest to that
).