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Date: | 2010-05-14 (11:51) |
From: | forum@x9c.fr <forum@x...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] about OcamIL |
Le 14 mai 2010 à 12:58, Eray Ozkural a écrit : > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jon Harrop > <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Xavier Clerc wrote: >>> Limiting myself to the JVM... >>> Moreover, at least Scala and Bigloo deliver excellent performances. >> >> I have benchmarks where the JVM is well over 10x slower than .NET. So I do >> not regard any JVM-based language as "high performance". > > You got a point there. > > JVM has a ridiculous performance, not fitting for any computationally expensive > operation. At best it's some kind of mudware for data plumbing and > simple network > applications. The memory system, whatever it is doing, is absolutely > terrible. I've > implemented some semi-sophisticated information retrieval code on it > (related to a > search engine) and I've seen that it's not only much slower but > horribly bloated > memory-wise as well. You can only use it for toy problems. > > And there are even papers using Java/MPI for high performance computing! > Using Java still turns any computer to a Commodore 64, so why are > people using it? If it is not considered as too much off-topic for this mailing list, could one of you provide references to such benchmarks rather than just state that they exist. Regards, Xavier Clerc