Re: Java outperforms C++?

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Hello, benben!
You wrote in conference microsoft.public.vc.language on Tue, 12 Apr 2005
22:05:41 +1000:

b> on page 601 of Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell. It seems,
b> as shown in the table, that Java outperforms C++ in every criteria, if
b> not merely matches the latter.

I am really surprised that there still are people eager to argue about C++
vs Java. If programmers spent all the time they spent on this arguing on
smth more useful, the world could be better now :)

Anyway, there is one and only one place where Java can be faster than C++
compilers - it's memory management - GC:
1. GC allocations are usually faster than tree-like heap allocatins.
2. During peak CPU usage time is not spent on deallocations - response is
_theoretically_ faster.

GC can be used in C++ too but it's not used, at least by typical C++
programers ;)

Modern optimizing compilers, profile-guided optimization, modern AI-enabled
CPUs with branch prediction provide C++ code with all benefits of
JIT-compiled code.

Best regards, Vyacheslav Lanovets


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