[geos-devel] Performance of GEOS compared to JTS (Report, Nov. 8)

[Norman Vine]

Martin Davis
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> I would still expect that the C++ code should be absolutely faster than Java - 

Me too 

> so we still have some sleuthing to do.

< disclaimer> 
  I know next to nothing about the JAVA 'machine' 
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Does JAVA pass somethings by reference automatically 
whereas in C++ you have to explicitly declare this ?

If so this might explain things as there seems to be a LOT 
of information being passed on the stack in GEOS which 
doesn't necessarily need to be.

Norman