Re: Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach)

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:17, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

I hope that JGit developers can
tell us whether using higher level language affects performance, how
much, and what features of higher-level language are causing decrease
in performance.

Java is definitely higher than C, but you can do some pretty low-level
operations on bits and bytes and the like, not to mention the presence
of a JIT.

My point: I don't think that Java can tell us anything special in this regard.