Re: PL/java?

I keep hearing all this talk about Java being slow, and how compiled Java is
nearly as slow as interpreted languages... If Java was _that_ slow, do you
think it would be powering a majority of the Enterprise level sites out there?
Java is really more than just hype. Surely it isn't nearly as fast as native
optimized C/C++. But there are numerous advantages to the language.

If you can afford to learn another language, and get some time to put it to
practical use, I suggest that you take a closer look at Java... or IMHO, atleast
don't knock it until you have substancial reasoning.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Gowey, Geoffrey
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:09 PM
To: 'Dr. Evil'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] PL/java?


probably a bad idea.  From what I've heard the speed of your java program is
wholely dependent on the speed of your vm (and most aren't that quick).
Although it would be nice to have just to say we have it and mysql doesn't
(then again mysql doesn't have a whole lot of things that pgsql already
has).

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Evil [mailto:drevil@sidereal.kz]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:38 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] PL/java?



What do you think of having java as a procedural language available in
PG?  It seems like java has many advantages.

I'm just wondering if people have thoughts or ideas on this, and if
someone is actually working on it, that would be cool.

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