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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602 Probably not the most comprehensive benchmarks, but nevertheless encouraging about Java performance. But the total performance numbers are nuts, as they weight trig functions equally with ordinary math. In reality the average numerical program spends very little time calling trig functions. The other thing these benchmarks miss is garbage collection. Nevertheless interesting. Cheers, Bill
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