Eye on Java performance Improvements

An anonymous reader writes "Performance. It's the one aspect of the Java platform that continually takes abuse. But the overwhelming success of the platform on other fronts makes performance issues worth serious investigation. In this article, Intrepid optimizers Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine, Director and CTO of JavaPerformanceTuning.com, look at compilation speed, exceptions, and heap size tuning."

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Question for Java and Perl developers

[Anonymous Coward]

I need to write a simplistic server that listens to the incoming TCP messages on a given socket in a non-blocking mode. The server should also log the incoming data into a text file.

What's the best architecture for that: Java or Perl?