[mbrubeck]

Note that in many of the other benchmarks, the fastest Java program takes 2x to 4x longer than the fastest C program. Still not bad! But knucleotide shows Java in a better light than most:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.html

(And as always, it's possible that someone can write a much faster Java program than the ones submitted so far.)

[pjmlp]

And in many cases it doesn't matter, those 2x, 4x longer are still in the accepted expectation time frame.