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Re: libcurl versus JAVA performance

From: Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:05:28 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:

> This is not the case. Dealing with some great people with a profound
> knowledge of assemblers C/C++ as well as java at the server side.

Just my conclusion when you compared Java with C/C++ instead of libcurl.

> Could it be the the great people of Sun and IBM have optimized so good
> HTTP and TLS/SSL stacks in JDK?

I have no knowledge at all about that. Would surprise/impress me if that was
the case.

I assume the HTTP part is quite small to be optimized. But if any part is
only one cycle faster then it's just a matter of iterate it enough to win the
competition... :-)

  // Kjell
Received on 2007-07-24