comp.lang.java.programmer

Re: Optimise my ray tracer

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <jadedga...@hotmail.com>

Jon Harrop <use...@jdh30.plus.com> writes:
> Can you elaborate on this? All of my tests indicate that Java is many times
> slower than most other modern languages, even stereotypically slow
> languages like SML and OCaml.

Since Java code (unless forced to run interpreted) runs 98% of its
time as run-time optimized native code, how can it be slower than
compile-time optimized C code? Are you perchance taking startup time
into consideration?