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    You should seriously read about JIT compilation, and look at some benchmarks where Java is put against C++ Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 13:52
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    Who the heck voted this answer down? This whole question is becoming incredibly ridiculous! Good grief. Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 15:48
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    @Joe The answer is wrong. Java isn’t interpreted. Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 17:00
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    @Anto Forget those silly benchmarks. C++ is orders of magnitude faster than Java where it counts, see programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/29109/29136#29136 and programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/368/13888#13888. Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 17:02
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    @Konrad As far as I can tell you are only offering a single conunter example based on sort - how is that better than "silly benchmarks"? Commented Nov 28, 2011 at 15:19