Java VM & .NET Performance Comparisons

johnhennessy writes "Just came across some good virtual machine performance benchmarks (on Mono's mailing list). It covers executing java bytecode via a host of different Java runtimes and also the mono runtime. Not only does it give numbers for IBM's runtime (1.4.2 and 1.3.1), Sun's runtime (1.5.0 and 1.4.2), GCJ, Mono, Jikes and much more! These numbers are also given for both Intel and Opteron (where relevant). Before the flames begin, don't forget to read the authors description of how the benchmark was carried out. Hopefuly this should inspire educated discussion on ones favourite JVM/CLR."