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Re:Why Java Will Always Be Slower than C++ by rbanffy on Sunday July 20, 2008 @01:39PM (#251513)
Besides being very old, as heroev well pointed out, this is a quite obvious article.

Just like C++ is slower than assembly, which is slower than using microcode, which is slower than coding at the logic-gate level.

It's not that writing Java code is easier than writing C++. The fact is that writing memory leaks is a lot harder in Java than it is in C++.

Re:Why Java Will Always Be Slower than C++ by borud on Sunday July 20, 2008 @05:01PM (#251664)
The main difference being that finding the memory leaks in Java, or rather: unintentional object retention, is far simpler than in most C++ environments.
Re:Why Java Will Always Be Slower than C++ by rbanffy on Sunday July 20, 2008 @08:14PM (#251791)
that's what I said. "Writing the memory leaks" is, after all, a lot harder in Java (or Python, or Ruby, or Lisp) than in C