>>73
As I've said a number of times in this thread it's not the slowness that's the problem, it's the fact that it's a shit language that's a hassel to code in. If I'm going to take a speed penalty - and don't get me wrong, I'm happy to do that, most of the stuff I write doesn't need to be --omg-optimized - I'd rather use a language that's fun and doesn't take incredible amounts of code to do simple things.
True though everyone seems to be jumping on the "Java is slow" boat, which entirely misses the point.