[cap-talk] Dan Bernstein's qmail security lessons paper

[David Wagner]

James Donald writes:
>Lisp has no memory leaks, and substantially better
>performance than Java,

Can you back up that statement with quantitative experimental data and an
explanation of the measurement methodology you used?  It is easy to claim
that X is better than Y, but if you cannot measure *how much* better X is,
that's often a hint that you don't really know -- you're just guessing.
I do not find such claims credible in the absence of careful measurements.

Do you have experimental measurements to justify and quantify the
claim that Java performance is "dreadful", or are you going on personal
intuition?



"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and
express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot
measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of
a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge,
but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science,
whatever the matter may be."  -- Lord Kelvin