Java compilation [was GCs in the news]

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 09:16:57 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
> I am suspicious. I understand that a situation can be contrived 
> such that C will lose, but in normal, sensible code the only 
> language I've ever seen reliably beat C is FORTRAN.

I'm reminded of when headlines came out saying PyPy was now 
faster than C in some cases. I got pretty excited (that's an 
impressive feat of engineering) but upon looking into it, it 
turned out it was just inlining better than C because the C code 
was making a function call into another library. LTCG/LTO wasn't 
even uncommon at the time and would have easily handled that case 
had it been enabled.