jvm
Java in a polyglot JVM world
The trend over the last few years has been clear, the number of viable platforms from which to build software systems has been growing. Not that many years ago, things would be either: Java, C++, Visual Basic or one of the many long-forgotten but once popular languages like Delp…
The folly of benchmarks
In my previous post The power of lazy sequences I fell in to a trap. A common trap, one which most of us fall, some of us quite regularly. I talk, of course, of trying to measure execution time. In my defence, given the context of that post, some kind of elapsed-time measuremen…