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It can, after a warm-up period and by using 10x the memory and likely non-idiomatic code. Sometimes one can live with that, sometimes not.



Look at benchmark game’s java programs - it is very idiomatic compared to most other contenders yet it is exceedingly fast


Only when the users are clueless to configure JIT caches.

As for non idiomatic code, that is even worse for Go code, as it lacks many of the performance tuning knobs.




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