Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Mark VanTassel
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:43

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"Alan L. Lovejoy" <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:

>Bzzzt!  Not according to the benchmarks I've done.  Go benchmark the factorial or fibonacci 
>functions (implemented recursively) in both C and a good Smalltalk.  You are in for a big
>surprise.

You're not seriously suggesting that a fibonacci series be programmed
recursively, are you??? Have you looked at the number of operations
involved in calculating, say, the 1000th term as vs a standard looping
approach?

I don't think this is a valid benchmark... (and I too fail to see how
Smalltalk can be faster than C++ except perhaps in bizarre special
cases)

- /\/\ark \/anTassel (mvantassel@teambca.com)

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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:43:32 GMT
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