that of course depends on what you mean by fast. Fast can mean "know how to make the job of the JIT easy" (which it does in many cases), but it can also mean "w

that of course depends on what you mean by fast. Fast can mean "know how to make the job of the JIT easy" (which it does in many cases), but it can also mean "write C in Java" which is, arguably, worse than writing C in C.