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Re: simulation language, C/C++ or Java?
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| | From: | ian mayo | | Subject: | Re: simulation language, C/C++ or Java? | | Date: | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:26:20 -0500 |
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 | Gary,
> In my experience c++ is better, because you can create easier GUIs and
> faster application. There are many technical libraries. In case of
> programming platform independent software and maybe applications for the
> web it is better to use java.
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> so far
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> gary
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I've used both languages and have to fall on the side of Java, I'm afraid.
I've
found a wealth of open source libraries and frameworks for Java which have
eased
the task of developing simulations. Re-using Open Source GUI, Network &
Framework components has been low-cost and allowed my development effort to
focus on the simulation task.
The relative speed of Java & C++ has received endless debate. The following
items have stayed at the front of my recollection:
- for higher level operations the processing is performed within the Java
libraries - which are largely written in C/C++ anyway
- for lower level operations (stepping through a loop, performing math
operations) the java code is almost identical to C/C++, and compiles down to
intermediate language of similar performance
An afterthought is that Microsoft is now moving its programming languages to
use
a runtime environment (CLR) just like java.
Good luck to the original poster anyway.
Ian.
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