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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by Mikeb85 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:07PM (#10976968)
> That aaid, one of the more interesting debates I participated in at Sun was Bill Joy's insistence that interpreted Java would be "faster than C++."

Today, with JDK8, that's almost true. With JDK9 it might be.

There's no reason Java can't be faster, it just hasn't happened yet.

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