D vs Java

[David Medlock]

Georg Wrede wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>>
>> The presenter confidently predicted that in 10 years, Java will
>> outperform C in the general case. Color me skeptical.
> 
> 
> The number of languages "faster than C", either "now" or "real soon now" 
> that I've heard at various venues, is more than one hand's fingers.
> 
> Somehow I share your skepticism.

In business, faster is relative believe it or not.

If I have an Application which is 30% too slow I can either pay 
programmers 2 weeks x 2 programmers(40/hr) =  6400$ to optimize it...

or I can spend $6400 extra on my hardware to run it(A good AMD64 server 
from SUN is around this range), and put the developers on other tasks.

I think concurrency is really coming into its own in the coming years: 
we need ways to easily leverage hardware effectively.

A good read on the subject:
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf

-DavidM