That's what I figured on both accounts. I guess I'm just bothered by the obvious inefficiency of Minecraft versus practically any other Java game I've played. Even other Java-based voxel games have far better performance.

Interesting aside: I just installed/ran Minetest and then compared it to Minecraft and Minecraft feels/looks a lot smoother on my basic HP laptop.

You had better back that claim up. I've seen slow Assembly programs; operating close to the hardware is not a guarantee of better performance.

I was keeping it high level because the person asking the question is a non-programmer. To your point though, I should have prefixed "correctly written" in front of C++.

> I was keeping it high level because the person asking the question is a non-programmer.

Well, I should have been more accurate: I'm not a programmer by trade, but I do understand the basic concepts of computer programming, and I've dabbled with both high level and low level languages. I've even done some assembly programming in the distant past, about 20 years ago, just to learn it, as well as a stint with SQL/400 on the AS/400 about 14 years ago. But these days the closest I come is bash scripting or dabbling in Python or Lua. I've never messed with C/C++ or Java though, hence my questions directed at those languages.

All that said, I do appreciate your response!

Someone said "technology1 is faster than technology2" everyone drinks!