Message from discussion Optimise my ray tracer

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <jadedga...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimise my ray tracer
Date: 11 Jun 2005 08:23:07 +0200
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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?