On 24/08/2025 3:40 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
As far as I know, Java also has generic routines. For application programmers,
these languages are acceptable despite their flaws.
I guess you're not referring to what Java would call generic routines.
Java has the advantage that the JIT compiler can see into external
routines and optimize across the calls. They can be inlined, unused code
discarded etc at runtime based on the calling routine.
I think this type of optimization is more important than optimization at
the individual instruction level - branches etc. can be very expensive.
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Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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