From: Jon Seymour Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:42:27 GMT Subject: Re: Core and Not-So Core Message-ID: <2cfc403205051100421a2ffa7e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511071717.GB23090@infradead.org> On 5/11/05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:45:01PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > > ...and I don't think people who use eclipse wants to have the fastest tool > > on earth, so "java-invoking-C is slower than pure java" is not a great excuse > > either... > > Note that it's also not true. At least if you use the gcj-specific CNI > mechanisms instead of Sun's braindead JNI. > > What I actually claimed (contrary to Diego's misquote) is that "Java-invokes-C-executable" would be slower than pure-Java. I didn't make a claim one way or the other about the performance of a Java implementation invoking some form of native interface. jon. -- homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/ blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/