Comments on Electric Sheep Blog: Scala, Lift and being cussed

1. the 1.5G max heap is probably because the devel...

2008-08-07T22:21:00.000+05:30

1. the 1.5G max heap is probably because the developer decided to put a huge number to avoid problems, and forgot (or didn't want to) actually tune it.

2. Performance: yes, right now Groovy is a stinkeroo in that Dept, and it's highly unlikely (because of language design differences) that Groovy will ever manage to come close to Java and Scala performance. Scala's performance is already nearly equal to equivalent native Java code.

3. Concurrency: you can achieve the same thing in Java, and in Groovy as you can in Scala... at a cost. Scala's actor framework and case classes are something that would require a lot of code to reproduce in either Groovy or Java.

4. Lift looks promising, and seems to be nearing 1.0...

Yep, scala is a winner for me!

Scala performance will be about a zillion times be...

2007-12-22T09:07:00.000+05:30

Scala performance will be about a zillion times better than Groovy.

http://alterlabs.com/general/articles/grails-vs-ra...

2007-11-10T20:47:00.000+05:30

http://alterlabs.com/general/articles/grails-vs-rails-the-thrilla-in-manilla-a-study-on-grails-productivity/

Just ccheck that..

hey, yep i love groovy and Grails.. i think this i...

2007-11-08T23:44:00.000+05:30

hey, yep i love groovy and Grails.. i think this is one great thing that could have ever happened on Java Platform.. it was very much required. considering the simplicity , expressive syntax of the dynamically typed language plus java runtime together makes a killer combination.
As far as the Actor library is concerned here it is ->http://www.groovyactors.org/examples/00.html
Well,i have never ever tried to profile the performance.. probably that would be my assignment for this week end, trust me Groovy performance shouldnt be that bad (with ref to your link..)will update to you on that soon..

My first consideration was that the language shoul...

2007-11-08T03:40:00.000+05:30

My first consideration was that the language should support concurrent programming using the Actor model. I haven't come across anything like that for Groovy. Is there an Actor library for Groovy?

Then there is the whole argument of just using JRuby instead of messing around with Groovy if that's the kind of syntax your looking for (though Grails is very interesting, I must admit - how are your experiences with it?).

And finally, there is performance.

interesting..but i feel on jvm , groovy is pretty ...

2007-11-07T21:56:00.000+05:30

interesting..but i feel on jvm , groovy is pretty cool as its interoperability is seamless on jvm and the syntax is quite neat...