What's missing in these tests is that they do not capture the required knowledge by the developer to achieve those results. If anybody has actually checked C/C

What's missing in these tests is that they do not capture the required knowledge by the developer to achieve those results. If anybody has actually checked C/C++ examples, one could see that they use non-trivial techniques/libraries to achieve superior performance. What would be REALLY interesting to see is breakdown of the performance by the years of experience of people that submitted working code examples. I have a feeling that a developer with one year of experience in Java, will probably beat developers with two years of experience in C/C++.