Published at LXer:
Java vs C++ benchmarking rarely if ever looks at the real issue w.r.t. performance, ability to perform well within multi-tasking. In this article, multiple benchmarks are run concurrently, exposing the overhead of Java which generally at least partially slips into the cracks of extra hardware capacity on single task benchmarks. And it explains why Java is thus not a good fit for large scale computing settings, like Hadoop.
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