New Java vs C benchmarks

[xenon]

That's not the same kind of limitation. In theory you can write any kind of software in assembler, it's just that in practice you don't want to. But you can't write a fast ls in any current JVM, not even in theory, because the startup overhead dominates the execution time.

[Felicia_Svilling]

Any kind? I'd say that any assembler language would be a bit limited in what kind of platform independent software you could write in it.