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Besides being vastly outdated, this article suggests that Java is on par with Perl when it comes to performance. In fact, Java is almost as fast as C++ on most

Besides being vastly outdated, this article suggests that Java is on par with Perl when it comes to performance. In fact, Java is almost as fast as C++ on most computational tasks, and faster than most other languages (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/)

mnemonicsloth 17y ago
Vastly outdated? Really? It's been quite a while since I've used Java so I'm curious to find out: Does Java have lexically scoped functions now? Macros? Inlined functions? Does Java have closures now? :keywords? CLOS-style multi-dispatch? It's not like there weren't languages out there, that certain co-authors of the Java spec did their PhD and postdoctoral work on, that implemented all of these features...
- mahmud 17y ago
  Hey now, nothing Clojure can't fix.
elai 17y ago
But why do java applications tend to be these huge, clunky, slow and memory hungry applications over and over and over again? Eclipse, any J2ME application/server and so on. Working on java applications has always been pain.