[Originaly Posted 22-June-2004]

I knew that Java was gaining ground on C++ in a lot of areas with respect to performance, but this is quite impressive…

http://kano.net/javabench/index

Note that while the client JavaVM still has pretty bad performance (it’s better than it used to be) the *server* JavaVM’s performance is *amazing*.

This link includes the source code for you to try the tests yourself.