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[Nathan T.]

On 4/30/05, Aaron Lehmann <lehmanap at lehmanap.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I believe he is referring to bloat in the sense of Java, Mono and Python
> all being interpreted (and Java IS interpreted, at least the first time
> its run).

You might find it interesting to know that Microsoft has found a way
to make Java even slower. Its called J#.net, and despite the
benchmarks by some companies probably getting ample funding from
Microsoft, the compiled bitcodes run very slow. I have to use J#.net
in Computer Science at school and I have a copy of the "free" express
edition at home so I can work on my CS work there and I've found that
as far as console applications go J# can be twice as slow at times. If
MS moves people over to dotNet there is no doubt in my mind that you
*will* need a 3GHz dual core processor with a gig of ram as some
people have predicted would be necessary to run Longhorn without
crippling it. All the dotNet languages get compiled into the same
thing don't they?

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