Re:Have you tried coding anything hard? (Score 1)

I worked on a data analysis application, which can insert 10 million records per hour. The machine was a 4 by processor AIX box running IBM's J2EE server with DB2 backing the database. The data was loaded through the java engine running in the J2EE environment. Queries were low because only managers had access to the system. The incredible rate proves modern JIT systems compare very well with native code. However poor object use can cause the modern platform independent languages to come to a halt trying to recover memory.