>
> > If you really need raw speed C or C++ will be always faster
> than Java.
>
> No, it won't. It has been proved false by counterexample that
> C/C++ will
> *always* be faster than Java. On some problems, Java already
> is faster than C or C++.
And even if it were true in theory, it wouldn't be true in practice. The
XSLT experience was that it took three or four times as long to produce a
working processor in C as in Java, and while the C developers were debugging
their memory management, the Java developers were devising* new
optimizations.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
(devizing? doesn't look right. American spelling confuses me.)
