Subject: Re: Re[2]: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA proposal, part ??
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 02:30:03 EEST
I really didn't want to get sucked into this but I have to respond to this.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:40:28PM -0600, Greg Turpin wrote:
> Now, by no means am I suggesting that anyone use
> Java for audio. If you let java decided when to run
> garbage collection - you'll run out of memory. If you
> decide to call System.gc(), your application will suffer
> a MAJOR performance penalty.
Why? You wouldn't call the collector from within the dsp thread, so why
would it give you any penalty at all?
> Personally, I view Java as a professional (and commercial)
> SCRIPTING LANGUAGE. But, that's just my opinion.
> As far as I'm concerned:
Scripting language? You obviously don't mean the same thing as me, the
Bourne shell is a scripting language, Java is not. Java is compiled,
verbose and strongly typed, how can it be a scripting language?
> Although, Perl has been known to
> put most other languages to shame in certain situations.
Ignoring pointless generalisations. The only language Perl puts to shame
is Befunge. Perl is OK for small, disposable, scripts but its so badly
designed I'd hesitate to use it for anything more complicated than that. I
speak from a *lot* of experience using Perl.
- Steve
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