Do everything in Java…

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

06-Dec-2014 18:33, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d пишет:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 03:26:08PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>>>     primitive are passed by value; arrays and user defined types are
>>> passed by reference only (killing memory usage)
>>
>> Primitive types are scheduled for removal, leaving only reference
>> types.
> [...]
>
> Whoa. So they're basically going to rely on JIT to convert those boxed
> Integers into hardware ints for performance?

With great success.

> Sounds like I will never
> consider Java for computation-heavy tasks then...

Interestingly working with JVM for the last 2 years the only problem 
I've found is memory usage overhead of collections and non-trivial 
objects. In my tests performance of simple numeric code was actually 
better with Scala (not even plain Java) then with D (LDC), for instance.

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Dmitry Olshansky