>>> OK, so Thread declares void run(), and DistressedDamsel declares void
>>> run(). Why would those declarations conflict?
>>
>> So if a class tries to implement both interfaces, it can't provide
>> different implementations for these two distinct methods merely because
>> their names clash?
>
> Depends on the language. You could, for instance, have a syntax to
> define a Thread::run() and a separate DistressedDamsel::run(); don't
> know whether C# can do that though. Maybe, maybe not. I'd just make a
> guess that Java can't do it.

Is there /anything/ Java does right? ;-)

>> According to the Great Language Shootout, C# Mono is 3x slower than C.
>> (Then again, Haskell is 2x slower...)
>
> A factor of 3x compared to what is probably the fastest
> more-or-less-high level language doesn't sound that bad to me, given how
> much easier it is to program anything serious in it. (You don't want to
> write a GUI program in C, do you?! You'd at least want C++)

My point is, adding a low-level feature to shave off 0.02% runtime 
overheard in a language which already has 200% overhead seems... odd.

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