Re: c vs. java vs. gcj performance

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Miguel writes:
 > >  > I wrote it in java and c. The c code (compiled with gcc) is 8 times
 > > faster than the java code (under Sun jvm 1.4.1_02).
 > >
 > > Shouldn't be, unless you're doing a lot of object creation.
 > 
 > mea culpa
 > 
 > My bug ... an "extra" return statement was short-circuiting much of the
 > computation in the c version of my benchmark.

Ah.  :-)

 > As it now stands, the gcj version is, in fact, somewhat *faster* than the
 > c version. Good enough for my purposes.

Truly fabulous.  That benchmark is something I'd *love* to see!

Andrew.