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From: chapman@grizzly.cs.washington.edu (Randy Chapman)
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Carl Laurence Gonsalves (clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: The incredible slowness of Java is only evidence of the inefficiency of
: garbage collection. I've programmed in a few languages that have garbage
: collection (among them are Scheme, Modula-3, and now Java), and all have
: been *much* slower than C or C++. I'm not saying Java is bad. Just don't
: call it "efficient" when it most certainly is not. It's fine for a lot of
: things, but it is unusable for anything computationally intensive. I have
: yet to hear of a person who has seen the "bouncing heads" demo run
: smoothly...

A bunch of baloney.  But enough people have already said that.

That being said, linux HotJava runs the bouncing heads 100% smoothly
on a p90 with 16meg ram running X locally.

--randy

