> Things are very different today.
Java has been fast for at least ten years.
Except start-up time. Java still has way too long a startup time, which you notice in desktop apps implemented in Java.
Java has been fast for at least ten years.
Except start-up time. Java still has way too long a startup time, which you notice in desktop apps implemented in Java.
However, there are lots of crap desktop apps written in Java that don't care about startup time. You can write apps with bad startup time in any language: look at OpenOffice (C++).