I've heard the "Java is slow" thing many times, but I've never really understood where it comes from. Yes, if you write it in assembly or C then it's faster "duh" but that's not the point hope.
Maybe it harkens back to the old days of Java 1 and the failed "applets" concept, which gave it a bad name. And I see some people complaining about JVM startup time and memory usage, or GC pauses, although in those areas a lot of progress has been made as well.
If you can criticize Java for anything then it would be its verbosity and the slow evolution of the language (but even those two have been addressed recently) - but not its speed per se.
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I've heard the "Java is slow" thing many times, but I've never really understood where it comes from. Yes, if you write it in assembly or C then it's faster "duh" but that's not the point hope.
Maybe it harkens back to the old days of Java 1 and the failed "applets" concept, which gave it a bad name. And I see some people complaining about JVM startup time and memory usage, or GC pauses, although in those areas a lot of progress has been made as well.
If you can criticize Java for anything then it would be its verbosity and the slow evolution of the language (but even those two have been addressed recently) - but not its speed per se.