[SeanDav]

> My Android device that runs slower after each "update"?

This is not only an Android problem, Apple is equally guilty of this. Arguably, more so.

Nor is it a Java problem. Some extremely speed-sensitive high perfomance code used by high speed trading algorithms use Java. This is in an environment where micro-seconds count.

[JudgeWapner]

When microseconds/frame rates/audio buffers count, you're only one garbage collection away from a complete thread lockup. Those gigabytes of heap aren't going to clean up themselves!