[juglugano] Resuming the talk about Java vs other stuff...

[Fabrizio Giudici]

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In a couple of days, in the JavaPosse mailing list I've read:


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Hmm, I clicked on over to Sriram Srinivasan's Google Tech Talk on
Kilim and there is this blurb:

ABSTRACT
Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.
A million actors, 3x faster than Erlang.

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You should checkout Akka, the actor framework that lets you combine
actors with STM for transactional message flows. This lets you choose
transactionality when desired, it's just one tool in the concurrency
toolbox. We also have support for Clojure-style Agents and Dataflow
concurrency.

We have client APIs for both Java and Scala, and we also have
excellent support for remote actors and cluster membership.

Currently we're about 4 times more performant than the native Scala
Actors library.

www.akkasource.org <http://www.akkasource.org>




So, I read: 3x faster than Erlang message passing, 4x faster than
Scala actors. Of course I'm totally ignorant about these points and
maybe they are just inaccurate claims (even though I doubt). If I
remember well, our discussion a few weeks ago lead to the point that
the new languages, indeed, can be interesting because of some things
in their runtimes, such as efficient message passing, actors, etc...
But - my question from an ignorant perspective - if I can do the same
in Java, and even faster, what's the point?

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Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager
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