6. Performance highlights

Evaluating a language is a complex task, especially as performance depends much more on the libraries used and the virtual machine than on the language itself. This short paragraph does not set out to evaluate all the features, but to give a few points of reference. A study published in www.gotdotnet.com on the PetStore application, which served as an example for the J2EE platform, headlined: ".NET, 10 times faster than J2EE". Not having the capacity to reproduce this study on another significant application, we first measured the cost of method calls.

Figure 6 gives some comparative values between a local method call in Java and in .NET, then between a remote call between Java RMI and .NET Remoting, with the size of call packets evolving.