Fron the article: > We tend to think of modern JVMs as highly optimized runtime environments, in many cases rivaling more “performance-oriented” languages like

Fron the article: > We tend to think of modern JVMs as highly optimized runtime environments, in many cases rivaling more “performance-oriented” languages like C++. While it holds true for the majority of workloads What you say more aligns with my thoughts. I've never heard someone express the opinion in this article. Then again, I don't know anyone quite as knowledgeable about the jvm as this article is.