Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x slower.

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Answer by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Ex-Googler, Author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume, If there are two programmers who are equally good, but one knows Java and the other knows ...

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