There is a minor-war going on in Sun Alumni mailing list and elsewhere where the common misconception: "Java is slow" is surfacing again and again, much to the dismay of knowledgeable Java developers who have known for ages that Java is fast even compared to C++ and has been so for several years. All this re-surfaced because Sun decided to change its ticker symbol to JAVA (previously it was SUNW). All of this is terribly frustrating to Java developers who take pride in Java and are well aware of its capabilities because they leverage it every day. So let's rest this myth to rest once and for all, shall we?

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