When your commandline tool needs several seconds CPU to complete the task, JVM startup time is irrelevant. The benchmarks game measurements posted by voidlogic

When your commandline tool needs several seconds CPU to complete the task, JVM startup time is irrelevant. The benchmarks game measurements posted by voidlogic include JVM startup time and yet many of the Scala programs are faster than the corresponding Go programs, when the programs run for seconds. So a Go n-body program can be faster than a Scala n-body program at 0.33secs over a small workload, but then over a larger workload take 32.1secs compared to 23.5secs for the Scala program. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=nbody&lang=go&id=1 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=scala http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...