Java Urban Performance Legends

An anonymous reader writes "Programmers agonize over whether to allocate on the stack or on the heap. Some people think garbage collection will never be as efficient as direct memory management, and others feel it is easier to clean up a mess in one big batch than to pick up individual pieces of dust throughout the day. This article pokes some holes in the oft-repeated performance myth of slow allocation in JVMs."

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Lisp & Smalltalk

[GnuVince]

While he's at it, could he also address the myths that Lisp and Smalltalk are slow too? Because they're not, they're pretty fast (though not as fast as C) and they offer vastly improved programming environments which leads to vastly better development time, which C can never hope to achieve.