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Re: Native code FUD
by Tim Jansen on Monday 09/Aug/2004, @11:59

"I think you can argue all you want about how managed code is/can be just as fast or faster than native code, but the fact is: it isn't."

Give it some time. C# is still very new. Java already made a lot of progress from it's early beginnings, but they started with an interpreter and Java is not exactly a language that has been designed with performance in mind.

I never claimed that managed code is faster today. I just complained about the statement that native code will be faster and whatnot for eternity.

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Re: Native code FUD
by Leo Spalteholz on Monday 09/Aug/2004, @12:06

True. I misread your original post a bit.

In any case, I think eventually it will become a moot point.
If I can implement features much faster in a mangaged language than in a static one then I can certainly live with the end result being a bit slower. Current average hardware isn't quite at the point where we can do this everywhere but it will be. Just like the transition from assembly to C to C++. The trend is towards languages that allow faster programming at the expense of some speed.

Maybe in 50 years I'll be coding in C##++ on a PIC :)

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