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by titzer 3643 days ago
> Java used to have the opposite problem. It was doing too much at the "Java bytecode" level, such as string manipulation - so they added more "complex" opcodes written in C/C++ to speed things up, significantly.

Where'd you get that idea? It's because of advanced JITs that Java got a lot faster.

- former JVM hacker