Sun Micro engineers bashing Java, and mentioning Python even Eiffel

Jonathan Ellis jbellis at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 23:58:13 EDT 2004


Adonis wrote:
> I do not know if this was ever posted on here but check this Sun
Micro
> internal memo out:
>
> http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1321

As you say, that's from 2000.  Modern Java is significantly faster than
Python.  (This also means Jython has narrowed the gap with CPython
without any code changes. :)

-Jonathan




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