Do everything in Java…

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2014-12-06 at 07:33 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Whoa. So they're basically going to rely on JIT to convert those 
> boxed Integers into hardware ints for performance? Sounds like I 
> will never consider Java for computation-heavy tasks then...
> 
Exactly the opposite, the JVM and JIT technology is getting to the 
stage where boxing and hence unboxing happens less and less. For most 
computationally intensive tasks there will be no boxing and unboxing 
at all.

Currently I still have to use primitive types to get Java to be faster 
than C and C++, but there are hints that the next round of JIT 
technology and JVM improvements will make that unnecessary.

Of course there are elements in the JVM-verse who think that primitive 
types are the only way of doing this and that relying on JVM/JIT 
technology is anathema. This is still a moot point, no decisions as 
yet.

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Russel.
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