Jesse Erdmann <jesse_erdmann at securecomputing.com> writes:

> That may be true for applets and stuff running in browsers, but it seems
> fine for things like JSPs or other applications.  I've had a few nits
> with it here, but for the most part it's great.  Most of our problems
> were way down in the networking stuff.
> 
> Yes, it's still slower than C, but while you shouldn't expect a Java app
> written for Windows to just up and run (maybe only a few minor issues
> here and there, and once you fix the Linux code you can usually take
> that code and run it on both Windows and Linux, not sure about Solaris)
> it's not nearly as bad as porting C.

What's servlet performance like?  As you say, not relative to C; how
about relative to Perl, or PHP?  Or Cold Fusion?  Comparing the two on
the same platform of course.
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