Agreed. I wish people didn't assume GC means slow - Java has the most sophisticated GC out there. There are points when not being able to stack allocate objects

Agreed. I wish people didn't assume GC means slow - Java has the most sophisticated GC out there. There are points when not being able to stack allocate objects hurts performance, but JVM performance is good. I've worked one two database systems written in JVM tech and the performance was good.