Java Vs C performance comparison

When Java was gaining prominence a few years ago, the debate around performance of applications built using Java/C/C++ used to happen quite often. However when Java took over the world, the performance debate nearly died down even though C/C++ applications play fairly well when it comes to performance. With the above context of performance, I recently came across the article from Azul systems comparing the instances where Java applications fair well as compared to C/C++ and vice versa. Read the complete article here