Re: Java vs C++ speed (IO & Sorting)
dave_mikesell@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Mar 20, 9:10 am, Razii <DONTwhatever...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Complete nonsense. If you are using the VM to load and run your class
file, the time must count.
Nope. VM load time has nothing to do with what we are testing. C++
code also only times needed for reading the file, sorting and writing
the file.
If you're testing the Java solution to this problem, you are by
definition testing the performance of the runtime.
It's like you saying you can get a kite to 200 feet faster from the
top of a 15-story building, than I can from the ground, but we can't
count the time it took you to take the elevator.
Apples and oranges. It's all about what you intend to measure. Demanding
that he intend to measure something different isn't fair. He's disclosed the
limits of his testing, that's all that's required of intellectual
responsibility. It's up to you to decide the relevance of that limit, not him
to change it.
As I mention elsewhere, for many applications and architectures JVM startup
time is irrelevant. What you want is granular predictability - know how much
JVM overhead contributes, and separately how long the algorithm will take.
Add them together if that's relevant to your analysis, don't if it isn't.
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