From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <7273328E-A685-4096-80FF-3AE8B6BEE2C2@9srv.net> From: Anthony Sorace To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <0d714e601c331078edfac3215876232c@ladd.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:39:23 -0500 References: <> <0d714e601c331078edfac3215876232c@ladd.quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: b2714a18-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.