[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happening

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>    I had originally put this in my other message but it seemed that
> it 
> needed to be separated.
> 
>    There's a huge danger of programming in a ridiculously high-level 
> language like Java when the programmer don't understand the low-level
> 
> Take this problem I dealt with a few weeks ago as an oversimplified
> example. 

My first "real" java program was a clock - it was not GUI, but it
consumed all available CPU cycles! Brought a mid-sized Sun server to
it's knees...

I got a real good laugh out of that - run my "clock.java" program,
watch everybody's sessions hang/go slow - seems I didn't code a
well-behaved piece of code. ;^)

I don't miss Java, and I don't think it misses me.

I've seen large Java-based projects work, but it ran on *big* HP
servers with Oracle database - performance was OK, I guess (nothig to
write home about)...


=====
Lionel

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