Java - A Slow Language?It Depends on What You're Talking About

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

In the past six years or so the claim that Java is a slow language has regularly appeared in articles and news discussions. Most of the time I follow the debate, but after a while I get bored because the discussions remain at the micro-benchmark level. It continues to amaze me that there isn't more focus on system-level performance in discussions of language performance.

Articles by Joakim Dahlstedt

Java - A Slow Language?It Depends on What You're Talking About