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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2008/12/04/who-says-java-is-not-fast.html",
      "title": "Who says Java is not fast?!?",
      "content_html": "<p>While performance tests actually show that for even core numerical calculations Java is at par with C in terms of speeds,\nand sometimes even hits Fortran-like speeds, people keep think that Java is not fast. I only invite you to test that yourself.</p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I would like to take the opportunity to advertise <a href=\"http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/\">Noel</a>’s\n<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/cinfony/\">cinfony</a> paper in <a href=\"http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/home/\">CCJ</a>\n(doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-153X-2-24\">10.1186/1752-153X-2-24</a>) which features these speed measurements\n(from the paper, CC-BY license):</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/javaIsFast.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>I have to say that these numbers surprised me, as the <a href=\"http://cdk.sf.net/\">CDK</a> is hardly optimized for speed at al…</p>\n\n<h4>References</h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">O’Boyle, N. M., &#38; Hutchison, G. R. (2008). Cinfony – combining Open Source cheminformatics toolkits behind a common interface. <i>Chemistry Central Journal</i>, <i>2</i>(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-153x-2-24 <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-153X-2-24\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.1186/1752-153X-2-24\">Scholia</a></div>\n  </div>",
      "summary": "While performance tests actually show that for even core numerical calculations Java is at par with C in terms of speeds, and sometimes even hits Fortran-like speeds, people keep think that Java is not fast. I only invite you to test that yourself.",
      "image": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/javaIsFast.png",
      "date_published": "2008-12-04T00:10:00+00:00",
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      "tags": ["java","cdk"],
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            { "url": "https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-153X-2-24", "doi": "10.1186/1752-153X-2-24"
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        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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