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Foil 6 Isn't the Web hardware and software too slow to be interesting for HPCC? - I

From Master Foilset Web Based Network Technologies for Scientific Computing CRPC NSF Review August 15-16 1996 -- 16 August 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox

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Java is currently semi-interpreted and (as in Linpack online benchmark) is about 50 times slower than good C or Fortran

http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackjava/

Java --> (javac)--> Downloadable Universal Bytecodes --> (Java Interpreter)

--> Native Machine Code

Just in Time Compilers speed this up by factor of 10

However Language can be efficiently compiled with "native compilers"

Java ----> (native compiler)

---> Native (for Particular Machine) Code

Lots of Interesting Compiler issues for both compiled and scripted Java

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