From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Ted Dunning  writes:   
   >That assumption is unfounded.  Java programs still have a moderate   
   >penalty in terms of memory usage, but generally have little or no   
   >penalty in terms of run-time.   
      
     If you consider a factor of "1.7" (on the average of certain   
     benchmarks) to be "little or nothing".   
      
      "1.0 C++ GNU g++   
       1.7 Java 6 -server"   
      
   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all   
      
   >Take for example Jruby, the Java implementation of Ruby.   
   >It is generally *faster* than the C implementation.   
      
     Faster than Ruby 1.8.x, which is a pure interpreter.   
     Ruby 1.9 is about three times as fast.   
      
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