[r-t] Writing method display software

[Don Morrison]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:29 AM Richard Smith <richard at ex-parrot.com>
wrote:
> it is hard to compare C++ with Scala as one compiles to native
> machine code and the other to Java bytecode.

Though modern, high performance JVMs then JIT compile the bytecode down to
machine code, anyway, right? I suspect that with Scala, just as with the
Lisp I love and use regularly, one of the important considerations is to
avoid allocating and then GCing too much memory in inner loops. Though
modern GCs can be surprisingly good at dealing with short lived objects at
minimal cost, so much so that in some cases standing on your head to avoid
consing can reduce locality to such an extent that it actually makes things
worse, though I don't think I've ever run into such a problem in any
ringing software whose performance I've worried about (which is pretty much
just search, nothing else I've ever dealt with in ringing being all that
sensitive to performance).



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