Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:51:22 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <20040305155015.Y38020@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403041513.00003.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniela wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2004 23:12, Johnson David wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:40 pm, Daniela wrote: > > > Cross platform applications are slower than apps that are optimized > > > for one particular platform. I know what I'm speaking of. What are > > > the extended features of a platform good for, when you can't use them > > > because another platform doesn't have them? > > > > Not necessarily true. You won't be able to perform any platform specific > > optimizations, but in general cross platform code is not any slower > > than platform specific code. Three examples: NetBSD, Linux kernel, Qt. > > Neither NetBSD nor Linux are considered "slow" by any stretch of the > > imagination. Qt is impresively fast, and is only called "sluggish" by > > biased trolls. > > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed assembly > language programs. > and how many millions of lines of that have you written and maintained? Are you sure it would not be faster if it was re-written in C and compiled ? > Daniela >
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