Java > Scala

[Walter Bright]

On 12/3/2011 1:19 AM, Somedude wrote:
> So maybe they can hope to reach LuaJIT speed in the near future, but
> before reaching C speed, I suppose there is a long way to go.

About 7-8 years ago, I attended a conference where a Java guru made a nice 
presentation about how Java was unfairly characterized as slow, and that 
improved JIT technology had solved the speed problems.

But he also said that closing the performance gap with C was 10 years out, and 
laughingly said it would likely always be 10 years out :-)