However, Java applications still appeared to run much more slowly than C++ applications. This created disadvantages when creating large network applications. Java’s main advantages are the reasons for ...

The fact remains that Java is an interpreted language. In contrast, C++-- a language which Java is often compared to -- is statically typed. It is the dynamic nature of the Java language that often ...

Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x ...

Nevertheless, Java performance approaches that of C and C++, and projects such as Quarkus enable Java microservices to be compiled right down to binary, so the virtual machine issue goes away.

Java continues to gain on C and C++ in performance, as evidenced by the latest development from NewMonics of Lisle, Ill. The company's Perc 3.2 Java virtual machine and compiler ...