Java Runtime Performance Vs Native C / C++ Code?

Question

I\'ve become more and more comfortable programming in Java than with C++ or C. I am hoping to get a sense of the performance hit incurred using a JVM interpreter, as oppose

Answer 1

Important thing to note down is

Java byte code JIT compiled to much more optimized code specific to particular hardware

vs

C code compiled and optimized to general hardware so it cannot take advantage of features provided by specific hardware