> That aaid, one of the more interesting debates I participated in at Sun was Bill Joy's insistence that interpreted Java would be "faster than C++." Today, wi

> That aaid, one of the more interesting debates I participated in at Sun was Bill Joy's insistence that interpreted Java would be "faster than C++." Today, with JDK8, that's almost true. With JDK9 it might be. There's no reason Java can't be faster, it just hasn't happened yet.