Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Re: missing import java.lang.Comparable Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:26:31 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <6cbiob184r55h86pg11p45gkkmg4c877tu@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35117 On 7/23/2016 10:24 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/22/2016 11:31 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 7/19/2016 11:47 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> Yes, it is a problem for big data. But you wouldn't understand what it's >>> like to process a few tens of gigabytes, would you? >> >> It is a few decades since "few tens of gigabytes" was "big data". >> >> :-) >> > > Not when you're processing it at one time. > >> Processing 20, 30, 40 GB of BigDecimals is not a problem on moderne >> hardware. >> >> If you are doing just add, subtract etc. then it should take just a few >> seconds. >> > > You have no clue, obviously. Why don't you try it. Hint: I did. >>>>> And it doesn't support the DECIMAL type in >>>>> databases. >>>> >>>> Not correct. It does. >>>> >>> >>> On which database? >> >> Probably all. >> > > Probably? ROFLMAO! You don't consider it likely that products follow the standard that they are implementing? Arne