From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <7273328E-A685-4096-80FF-3AE8B6BEE2C2@9srv.net> References: <> <0d714e601c331078edfac3215876232c@ladd.quanstro.net> <7273328E-A685-4096-80FF-3AE8B6BEE2C2@9srv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3BC10147-A971-404F-B310-3BB515C62582@fastmail.fm> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ethan Grammatikidis Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:07:13 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: b2996e76-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. -- Ethan Grammatikidis eekee57@fastmail.fm