Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On 26 Dec 2009, at 3:39 am, Anthony Sorace wrote:

> On Dec 25, 2009, at 04:57, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
>>> Java sometimes does turn up trumps where C code struggles on
>>> machines
>>> which were recently considered powerful. Other examples would be web
>>
>> what?
>
> from the rest of his post, i gather that the claim isn't that Java
> vs. C code of equivalent
> quality has C lagging, but rather that some application written in
> Java can beat an
> application of vaguely equivalent description written in C. the VNC
> examples given
> say, basically, that the Java app performs better out of the box
> than the C app, but it
> seems to just be about picking better (for that particular case)
> defaults.
>
> i guess my question is really what this observation is intended to
> illustrate.
>
>

Yes, that would be what I meant. Thanks for writing that Anthony,
these things are all pretty clear in my head, but writing them out
clearly is quite hard work.


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Ethan Grammatikidis
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