C is fastest (was: McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:18:27AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Java's garbage collection has always been amazingly bad.  Java might
> > actually become almost useful if it let the developer do the memory
> > management.
> 
> Well, this certainly isn't the opinion of most researchers.

Well researchers don't get everything right.  Garbage collection sounds
like a good idea, until real applications have to be written.  The number
of java applications that like to consume 500MB or 1GB of ram to do
almost nothing is rediculous.  Maybe the garbage collection simply isn't
working because the programmers are doing a terrible job.  Either way
it is encouraging developers to not think about resources at all.
Clearly that isn't working.

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Len Sorensen
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