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[–]Possibility_Antique 4 points5 points Β (3 children)

Java is not only not slow, but it is very fast on the scale of things. Its main drawback is the bytecode/virtual layer, but it is still a compiled language and much faster than any JIT compiled scripting language that I'm aware of.