Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: deleting files Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:52:29 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25674 On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:34:16 +0100, Luuk wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >C is compiled code, and runs faster/more-optimized than Java which is >byte-compiled (as i remember correctly) to be platform independend, so >there a penalty at the last step.... I usually use Jet to compile my Java to native code. I have examined code and discovered that it is generally better than hand-coded assembler since it takes into account pipelines, not just cycle counts on individual instructions. I would have expected finding files to delete would be an i/o bound operation. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ~ Farmer's Almanac It is breathtaking how a misplaced comma in a computer program can shred megabytes of data in seconds.