Java tooling in general is great, that's true. But nothing beats Vtune for squeezing the lemon of a tight loop of C code beyond any reason :-) Java just doesn'

Java tooling in general is great, that's true. But nothing beats Vtune for squeezing the lemon of a tight loop of C code beyond any reason :-) Java just doesn't lean itself well to that kind low-level code wrangling. One misstep - and the performance house of cards falls apart.