Java's been making the garbage collector better for decades at this point and is still in the second performance tier compared to those other languages. Of cou

Java's been making the garbage collector better for decades at this point and is still in the second performance tier compared to those other languages. Of course, if one does GC tuning like a pro, uses a sufficiently smart GC and maybe a custom VM (and unicorns) one may reach the mythical native speeds (typically at the cost of using a lot more memory).