C is fastest

[Yanni Chiu]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Also some of us work on embedded hardware and really hate wasting CPU
> on stupid languages.

In the mid-80's Tektronics oscilloscopes were built using Smalltalk 
running on a VM (i.e. bytecode interpreter). I'm not sure whether they 
had custom garbage collection though. In any case, garbage collection 
can be managed by controlling when it is invoked - by setting the policy 
hooks, or by having the system initiate garbage collection at an 
opportune time. Hardware resources were even more scarce back then, and 
yet they found the trade-off worthwhile.

A Java VM is basically the same - a bytecode interpreter with garbage 
collection. So if Java is failing to yield useful software, in your 
experience, then it may indeed be due to the language itself encouraging 
poor coding practice, since the VM technology is certainly up for the 
challenge.

-- 
Yanni
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