Java is only as fast as C/C++ if you completely avoid creating objects. It is the ability to manipulate raw data in a cache optimum way and without the Java/C#/

Java is only as fast as C/C++ if you completely avoid creating objects. It is the ability to manipulate raw data in a cache optimum way and without the Java/C#/… imposed overhead that makes C/C++ fast. Trading doesn’t touch much data so I am not surprised that Java is OK there.