Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Java 7 vs 8 speed issues on Win7?
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:37:39 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <m3emtc$bd2$1@dont-email.me>
References: <m28osf$b1i$1@dont-email.me> <ac6k5ahi1h95romsnq52kus20rvbi3psel@4ax.com> <m3ditj$8bd$1@dont-email.me> <m3dus5$q4d$1@news.albasani.net> <m3ej2t$9ae$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 02:37:32 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="11682"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PwikxpfNCYGhos483W9wa"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0
In-Reply-To: <m3ej2t$9ae$1@dont-email.me>
Cancel-Lock: sha1:ukGEtAR5wEFWADIxmCIaFC2n8n8=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30288

On 11/5/2014 8:32 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 11/5/2014 11:47, Jan Burse wrote:
>> A fundamental change in one of the newer JDKs
>> is a changed semantics for substring(int, int).
>
> For better or worse?

     "Yes, probably."

     (Given the amount of data provided, that's really all the
answer one can offer -- and all that's deserved.  C'mon, Knute:
No description of the application, no hint about its hot spots,
no profiling data, not even *one* measurement of any kind at
all ... How in the world can you expect useful feedback when
you've not fed forward?)

-- 
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
"Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM