Performance tests show Java as fast as C++

http://www.javaworld.com/jw-02-1998/jw-02-jperf.html
http://kano.net/javabench/

>>17
everything java can do, c# can do better.
new (reasonably) fast shit > old slow shit
also, in all the years java has been around, no one has managed to make anything better with it than >>3.