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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19036)	12/11/1997 9:39:00 AM
From: BP Ritchie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Good Morning Paul! ... although David's statements are correct, your original concept about Java's performance (current situation) being not very significant is also correct. People sometimes forget that Java is intended to run over a network ... the performance bottleneck is still the communications link. And, there are very impressive performance improvements for Java in the works right now. I don't believe that Java applets or servlets should be written to replace applications that already exist ... Java will not perform as well, and does not yet provide all of the system support of more established programming environments. Java should be used to write applications for networks that are either very difficult to write using other languages (or sometimes nearly impossible). I suspect that many of the 'performance problems' arise from incorrect usage of Java ... modules that are primarily intended to run on a single computer should be written in language more suited for the specific problem and environment being targeted ... C++ is very similar to Java and I think that anyone that can write Java can also write C++. The benefit of Java comes from it's network based runtime model, C++ is much better for a single computer runtime application ... but much more difficult to use in a network runtime environment. BTW ... did you get to the Novell booth yet? ... find out what they use for Development ... esp 'application profiling' ... is it the Intel tools? Did they tell you about the 'hot spot' technology from Sun? Thanks