Re: Cracking DES with C++ is faster than Java?

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:09:41 +0000 (UTC)

"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote in message
news:b2e4b04.0404292013.7d5ddd8@posting.google.com...
[snip]
> Only, for starters, when you actually use a garbage collector. Even
> then, techniques to reduce waits during a collection cycle have been
> well known for quite some time. I realize that many JVMs (for one
> example) use GC that dates back to roughly the Lisp 1.5 era, but that
> doesn't mean nothing better is known. Generataional scavenging,
> incremental GC, etc., have been around for some time and can't be
> summarily dismissed even for hard real-time systems.

Stick to constructions that always produce the same
results given the same inputs. Designs that fail x%
of the time fail x% of the time.

Andrew Swallow

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