I admit I was way off - Windows has only been around since 1985 or so, and in usable form since 1990. And Java does have some very fast code. And I agree about

I admit I was way off - Windows has only been around since 1985 or so, and in usable form since 1990. And Java does have some very fast code. And I agree about optimisations too. It's easy to go overboard to get more speed.