Java > Scala

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Nov 30 13:50:53 PST 2011


On 11/30/2011 12:56 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Are you not being a bit simplistic here?
>
> There are several JVM implementations around not just one.

It's not the implementation that's the problem, it's the *definition* of the 
bytecode for the JVM.


> Plus if I understand correctly some complains of people using D in real
> projects, in many cases JVM JITs are able to generate better code than D. At
> least for the time being.

Only if you're writing "Java" code in D. If you write using value structs, for 
example, or use array slicing, things don't work out so well in Java which can't 
do either.


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