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We did a distributed N-queens solver to test the Gifu Prefectural Computing Grid that an ex-job helped to develop, and that was literally all ~35 of my lines of production C code ever. (Though most of the grid turned on "graphical" mode, which both a) solved in Java and b) solved in Java at the speed of the Swing ability to update the visual board... which, after realizing, I patched to sleep frequently and run the C in the background anyway.)

This was ~5 years ago, and I don't remember the exact magnitude of the speedup on Java vs. C. I do remember it being rather less than I was expecting.