Re: assorted beginner questions

On 1/28/07, David Pollak dpp-at-athena.com |scala|
<...> wrote:
>  what are the some of the principal reasons for scala's (generally)
>  lesser performance compared with java, at least according to the
>  language shootout? not trolling; i'd just like to understand the
>  strengths and weaknesses of languages that i use.
>
>  I can't answer definitively, but I find stuff like the shootout to be not
> real world.  The performance differences between Scala and Java are marginal
> at most.  What's 20% between friends?

i think this is misinterpreting the nature of my question. i'm mainly
trying to understand if there's some particular feature(s) of scala
that hinders its performance.

yang