My blog post about Java.

[quote]This is weird but true – but in my test (which is really weird, I’m not sure if I’ve done something wrong.) iterating over 10000000000 elements in Java took 14 seconds while C++ did it in 37.
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This is not really weird, maybe this topic can help you further: http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=30448.0