 | | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Kevin Loch
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| | | (...) All geeks capitulate sooner or later on perl vs C. Of course Larry (and many others I work with) would tell you to write that stuff in Java but that would be a step backwards. Congratulations! Of course it's stability depends greatly on your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I like Java. But this really needed to be close to the metal and generate code that would fit in the L1 cache for the non-memory-bus-bound portions of the loops. The GNU C compiler is incredible. (...) It's the best C code I've written in 12 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Kevin Loch
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| | | | (...) Aah, you definately couldn't have done that in Java. Of course the ability to declare a couple register variables helps too. KL (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Of course I've heard of situations where an interpreter outdid hand crafted assembler. This can occur if the portion of the interpreter necessary to run your code fits in the code cache and the byte codes fit in the data cache when the hand (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I probably couldn't, no, but a very experienced Java programmer and a good JVM machine could conceivably do better than C. (It's not unheard of for Java to be faster than C for certain types of things.) The big hits would probably be the JVM (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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