"Fast" is subjective. "Fast enough for X" is better, but still subjective unless you have benchmarks. That said, I agree Java is good enough for, say, long runn

"Fast" is subjective. "Fast enough for X" is better, but still subjective unless you have benchmarks. That said, I agree Java is good enough for, say, long running web-services where you take the JVM start-up hit once. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/