From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: Core and Not-So Core Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:42:27 +1000 Message-ID: <2cfc403205051100421a2ffa7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cfc40320505100800426d38ca@mail.gmail.com> <1115739511.16187.432.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <17115.200.158.14.67.1115740220.squirrel@www.tendencies.com.br> <1115740844.16187.445.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <26021.200.158.14.67.1115741989.squirrel@www.tendencies.com.br> <20050510234501.79eea7a4.diegocg@gmail.com> <20050511071717.GB23090@infradead.org> Reply-To: jon@blackcubes.dyndns.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Diego Calleja , eduardo@tendencies.com.br, dwmw2@infradead.org, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 11 09:35:52 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVlko-00068b-3L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 09:35:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261919AbVEKHmp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 03:42:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261921AbVEKHmp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 03:42:45 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.196]:63968 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261919AbVEKHm3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 03:42:29 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so53277rnf for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:42:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NUbE+OaFZF9DU3gPhk7TOjGbWstxaStNum2m0nwphNGdB7iHFqE2gEQBA3vxLg1JeadugJiGP8/gggBDY0Z41qb0U2MXGqsOJA2ZRiXEBqTGn9nSqR5BtwUMFpWj2PpY++h/c12SC0USjbkJc8Cpxg9a5Ba6JMpJuXWRf2ibpmQ= Received: by 10.38.209.15 with SMTP id h15mr277846rng; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.104.59 with HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:42:27 -0700 (PDT) To: Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20050511071717.GB23090@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 5/11/05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:45:01PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > > ...and I don't think people who use eclipse wants to have the fastest tool > > on earth, so "java-invoking-C is slower than pure java" is not a great excuse > > either... > > Note that it's also not true. At least if you use the gcj-specific CNI > mechanisms instead of Sun's braindead JNI. > > What I actually claimed (contrary to Diego's misquote) is that "Java-invokes-C-executable" would be slower than pure-Java. I didn't make a claim one way or the other about the performance of a Java implementation invoking some form of native interface. jon. -- homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/ blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/