Bongo a Java for kids
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Mon Jul 30 01:23:57 UTC 2001
Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
According to the MIT folks [StarSqueak] is significantly
faster than their JAVA version of StarLogo (we are not sure why,
since no big attempts were made to optimize StarSqueak).
Possibly because Java is not a terribly well compiled language yet.
I have *interpreted* Scheme (using Aubrey Jaffer's SCM) running faster
than Java 1.2 (*with* Sun's JIT enabled). Different algorithms, no doubt,
but the overall task running faster in interpreted Scheme than compiled
Java surely says _something_ about Java.
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