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Irv Mullins writes:

 > Of course, the same thing could be done even faster in C.. All this really 
 > proves is that Java's "everything as an object" approach adds a lot of 
 > overhead which may or may not be of any use for the problem at hand.
 > Overhead that can bog things down, or prevent the program from running 
 > at all. So, if I were summing large lists of numbers, (which is
 > exactly what 

I wish Java had an "everything as an object" approach.  If you used
the Object class 'Integer', I can bet things slowed down a lot.  There
is also a type (not a Class) 'int' that I find it hard to imaging Java
being so slow on.  It is not a class at all, which has significant
disadvantages, but it also has the advantage of not being so memory
intensive.

--Michael

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