Re: Evaluation Methods for Programs

K M Yu wrote:

> Actually I have developed a Chinese Chess program for fun, based on the
> free codes from Pham. At first I did it completely in Java, but later for
> speed I change the engine to C and keep the GUI in Java (calling the C
> DLL via JNI).

In the conversion from Java to C, were the notable performance improvements
purely an artefact of bypassing Java byte code for native code, or were
there other things that you were able to do by virtue of the change in
source code?