Re: framework

[David Chisnall]

On 27 Aug 2009, at 11:24, Michael Thaler wrote:

> Objective C is not in the list but I doubt that Objective C would be  
> much faster then Java if you actually use Objective C and not just a  
> plain C subset. And Scala also runs on the JVM and is also quite  
> fast and it is a very nice, modern language which is not clumsy at  
> all.

If you can find an older version of that page, Objective-C used to be  
there with an average score of 1.6 (about the same as Java now) for  
speed, and much lower memory usage than Java.  The implementations all  
used pure message passing - no C functions, no IMP caching.

David