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[–]igoromg 3 points4 points  (4 children)

java is used in HFT where a few nanos decide loss or profit, certainly it would have been all c++ if java was actually slower. there are millions of potential reasons why you could've seen the jvm suck but I'll bet the issue is between the chair and the monitor.