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By gawu1
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Published: Jan 12 2012 / 12:00

Why is C faster than Java: Git vs JGit
JGit developer Shawn O. Pearce explains why Git is faster than JGit.
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Jonathan Fisher replied ago:

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Java was never intended to be faster than C/CPP. Java was intended to be more _practical_ that C/CPP, which is a goal it conquers with extreme prejudice.

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Abhay Bakshi replied ago:

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Good to know that "JGit performs reasonably well; well enough that we use internally at Google as a git server."

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rd88523 replied ago:

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If you run git under Windows (msysgit), it will not looks so fast...

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rd88523 replied ago:

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And really, slowest part of such programs is disk and network I/O, not crunching bytes into arrays.

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