Chrome and a V8: JavaScript Takes a Giant Leap Forward?
Richard L. Apodaca · 2008
Back when I started writing Java software in 1997, the Java Virtual Machine was slow . It was so slow that for years, many developers abandoned all hope of using the language for "serious" work once it became clear how much slower it was than C and C++. Eleven years of Moore's Law compounding, and countless JVM optimizations later, Java is so fast today that relative speed is rarely even considered when developing client and server