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Subject: Re: Java is faster!
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:17:39 -0400
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On 9/23/2016 9:31 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>       "Java is faster!
>       In terms of throughput in a long running system ...
>       For specific applications ...
>       On a well tuned JVM ...
>       With near-optimal GC strategy selected ..."
>
>   says Chandler Carruth, one of Google's C++ experts. (JFTR)

Java JIT and GC are pretty good today.

No surprise that it is faster "For specific applications".

There are probably also some other specific applications where
C++ are faster.

The real point is that throughput is not a decisive
factor in picking the language.

Arne