The Japanese language is the perfect example of how it's not important for something to be better or more efficient or whatever metric you try to make up
The worst writing system in the world is Japanese, and it's not close. Even the Japanese know this.
My childhood friend is a Japanese-to-English translator, who's worked in and out of Japan for 50 years and has many stories. He told me about a civil court case in Seattle, in
"Java is too slow for AI"... Nonsense.
The JVM can now transcribe speech up to 2X faster than the C++ reference implementation. Same model, same machine, same words.
An hour of audio in just 44 seconds.
No GPU. No Python. No ONNX. No Docker. No C++ sidecar.
