From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:56:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach)
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:17, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope that JGit developers can
> tell us whether using higher level language affects performance, how
> much, and what features of higher-level language are causing decrease
> in performance.

Java is definitely higher than C, but you can do some pretty low-level
operations on bits and bytes and the like, not to mention the presence
of a JIT.

My point: I don't think that Java can tell us anything special in this regard.