I don't know about that. Some of the Java libraries that were written in C were long ago converted to Java and they run faster. It's hard to say that the JVM i

I don't know about that. Some of the Java libraries that were written in C were long ago converted to Java and they run faster. It's hard to say that the JVM is faster or slower than X because it usually comes down to the way in which the application is developed. If C++ was ALWAYS faster then I wouldn't be using Java for our trading systems. Some of our competitors use C++ and some use Java. We have one of the fastest trading platforms in the world, the only firm to have faster than us are also using Java.