Re: Java vs Objetive-C
Re: Java vs Objetive-C
- Subject: Re: Java vs Objetive-C
- From: "Brad O'Hearne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 09:10:36 -0400
Tony,
I was unable to hit the link you provided (404), but I am very
interested in seeing it. If you have an alternative link or can
cut/paste the text into an email, please send it to me.
I am a Java developer of 8 years that has just started developing in
Objective-C. Java is a terrific language/platform, but it has some
definite shortcomings that would make it foolish to abandon Objective-C
-- and that's coming from someone heavily biased towards Java. In fact,
my hope is that Apple buys Sun, and then can put some fresh life into
the Java platform. Java is sadly lacking miserably in the desktop / GUI
department (and not without protest from some of us developers), and
there appears to be no public ear at Sun inclined toward the voice of
reason regarding it. There are some of us in the Java community that
feel that long term, the GUI dilemma may exile java to be a
server-side, primarily web-technology only (or worse, threaten its
existence). And again, I'm one of the Java-biased optimists.
Anyway, most performance articles I've seen for/against Java were
fairly skewed, and didn't take into account pragmatism towards the
problem being solved. "Faster" is a relative term, and may not be the
most important factor in a technology decision anyway. In addition, I
can tell you from first-hand experience that Java's auto array-bounds
checking is a significant performance hit for those doing high-volumes
of operations against large-arrays. I experienced this doing work with
imaging. And my interest now among other things is doing some heavy I/O
programming, which I am skeptical of basing on Java, just from the
things I observed in working with large arrays in imaging.
BradO
On May 8, 2004, at 6:42 AM, Tony Cate wrote:
A friend of mine is a Java developer. He sent me this link. The person
is claiming that
Java has been optimized to the point where itbs faster than
Objective-C. He includes
some code examples to support the claim. The whole point of his
brantb is that Apple
should abandon Objective-C for a more mainline language. (For the
record, the only
thing I know about Java, is how to spell it.) Herebs the link:
http://homepage.mac.com/spullara/rants/C1464297901/E775622191/
index.html
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