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From fork-admin@xent.com  Mon Sep  2 16:22:19 2002

Reza B'Far (eBuilt) wrote:
> problems.... Why do most computer scientists insist on solving the
> same problems over and over again when there are some many more
> important and interesting problems (high level) to be solved ?????
Amen!
Doing it in an (unecessarily) harder way does NOT make you more of a man
(or less of a kiddie).
- Joe
--
The Combatant State is your father and your mother, your only
protector, the totality of your interests. No discipline can
be stern enough for the man who denies that by word or deed.

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From fork-admin@xent.com  Mon Sep  2 16:22:27 2002

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Mr. FoRK wrote:
> > 6.  Hardware is getting so fast that I'm not sure if the performance
> > difference between Java and C/C++ are relevant any more.
>
> When out-of-the-box parsing & transform of XML in java is 25x slower than
> C++ on the same hardware then it does matter.
Yea, and that on top of the 100x of all the parsing engines over just
bigendian'ing it and passing the data (5x+++) in the raw. Then it REALLY
matters.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com