Java vs. C Performance
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Cliff Click is the CTO and Co-Founder of H2O, makers of H2O, the open source math and machine learning engine for Big Data. Cliff wrote his first compiler when he was 15 (Pascal to TRS Z-80!), although Cliff’s most famous compiler is the HotSpot Server Compiler (the Sea of Nodes IR).
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Java vs Java software
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Jeff Hain
but in practice (observed it at large scale) having a GC can hurt performances
(other than due to pauses), in that having to manage memory explicitly forces the
otherwise careless devs (apparently a large majority) to:
1) Be used not to create too many things, else they'll have much cleanup
to do (whereas GC makes it easy to do things like "new Jungle().getBanana()",
ending up with more memory and CPU usage.)
2) Be used to clean up obsolete information at the technical level,
hence at the domain level (whereas GC makes it easy to just pile up data
in maps, and forget to remove it when obsolete, ending up with both
memory leaks and possible bugs due to obsolete data usage.)
When people say "Java is slow" they might actually mean "Java software is slow",
and that's more likely to be true.
Hope I didn't start a flamewar ;)
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