[Ocaml-biz] Java and Games

[Brian Hurt]

I was going to post this to the Ocaml Games mailing list, but seem to have 
mislaid the address for that list.  It's mostly on topic here:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/08/1452203

Someone has implemented Doom II in Java.  Yes, this is an old game, but 
the Java performance is reportedly comparable to the straight C 
performance.

My opinion of what is going on here: the heavy lifting is being done by 
the OpenGL renderer.  If 95% of the computation is being done by OpenGL, 
even if the Java is half the speed of C, that still only translates to the 
Java being 5% slower overall than C.

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Brian