Scala time measuring

[crazy_crank]

Hi guys

I'm using spoj with Scala, around a week now, to learn the language (Scala). But theres a problem with the language. On problems with short time limit (1 second) there is always a TLE status code. After searching a while in this forum i found the following thread:
https://www.spoj.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=6177&p=14917&hilit=scala#p14917
Here's explained, that the scala interpreter takes around 1.5 seconds to start. Through this, some problems are simple unsolvable with scala.
I was thinking, that this should be the same way with Java, since the two runtime environments are equal, but there is no problem, the interpreter doesn't take too long to start
I think thats a bug, the interpreters start time shouldn't be mesured, because thats not part of the programs runtim itself, or is there a special reason for this behavior?

greez
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[crazy_crank]

Hi guys again

I think there are very less Scala programmers in spoj community, but I'd love to get a statement, if this is a wanted behaviour or a bug... And if it's a bug, if it hopefully get's fixed soon

greez
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[wiele_sof]

Hello,
we look into the matter more closely.

[crazy_crank]

thx a lot, I almost gave up hope

Let us know if something happens in this direction;)

[wiele_sof]

Unfortunately, due to some internal limitations on SPOJ, it's impossible to improve the time measurement at the moment. So, for the time being, users who solve problems in Scala, are in less privileged situation than the other users (as it also is with some other languages).

EDIT:
ok, there is some hope on horizon

[wiele_sof]

Now Scala should run faster.

[hendrik]

Yes indeed. Should be fast enough for a many of the problems.