The truth is that the hotspot computer is pretty old at this point and never really implemented a lot of good, robust, and thorough optimizations (I've read the

The truth is that the hotspot computer is pretty old at this point and never really implemented a lot of good, robust, and thorough optimizations (I've read the source every year or two). It does some stuff and hopes for the best. This is why there is a real commercial jvm market with azul.