[squeak-dev] what is holding back Smalltalk?
Claus Kick
claus_kick at web.de
Fri Nov 21 20:31:41 UTC 2008
Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> But at what cost????
It is a high cost at times, granted :>
> Java is more suited for small applications
I am sorry, but could you please explain this?
> and I guess that Oracle
> people got it right when they started to migrate from old tools to Java
> in order to have better UI development.
What UI development do you mean?
> But when you have to handle
> large amounts of data and extremely dynamic objects and things like that
> Java performance drops to the point that it is better to use C++ or even
> C...
This sounds interesting - could you please elaborate a bit further?
> Interesting enough, there are lots of re-engineering initiatives for the
> Java VM. Up to the moment nobody was able to create a VM that lessens
> the troubles with the garbage collection system and other performance
> related topics.
Well, one performance related topic is halfway gone: graphics.
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