Define System Programming.
And I've overheard one of my professors who's been debugging the HotSpot VM for 1.5 talking about some aspects of Java able to actually beat C in speed. We'll need to see the benchmarks once 1.5 comes out.
Java, I believe, does a great deal more optimization to code than GCC does. As compiler optimization gets better, I'd expect Java to quickly shrug off the opinion it's slower.
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Originally posted by Valmont
So for the moment one could say: Java has superiour house cleaning, but no system programming (yet).
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