Will Java go native?

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 08:26:03 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> Java is no longer under-performant compared to C, C++, Fortran, 
> D, Go, Rust. Check the benchmarks.
Interesting.  Java people have been saying this for years and 
it's never been quite true, so I just looked up the benchmark 
shootout to see if you're right.  It shows Java 7 doing pretty 
well against C++ these days, roughly equivalent speed or at worst 
half as fast:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=java&data=u64q

I'd still never use it as I hate how verbose Java is, but it's 
intriguing to see that they've tightened it up.  Of course, all 
the usual caveats apply, as these benchmarks are not necessarily 
representative, might have been gamed, blah, blah, blah...