On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:43, Jeremy Turner wrote:
Java had the first crack at being platform independent. It got a reputation at being very slow in the beginning, and many people still repeat that. It will never be as fast as C (neither will Perl). I haven't compared the emulation percentage of Mono to .NET verses open implimentations of Java to Sun's Java, in other words how completely does the open source implimentation stack up to the propriatary one.
Also, C# is an ECMA standard. I'm not sure if Java is.
As I recall, the Great Win32 language shootout uncovered that Mono 1.0 leaves a lot to be desired in the performance area versus the official implementation. However, Mono 1.1 was supposed to address a lot of that.
I don't think Java is ECMA. There's the Java Community Process which is something of a formal standardization mechanism but Sun is the final arbiter of such voting.