Performance of Java 1.6 vs C++?

Question

With Java 1.6 out can we say that performance of Java 1.6 is almost equivalent to C++ code or still there is lot to improve on performance front in Java compared to C++ ?

Answer 1

Debian likes to conduct benchmarks on this sort of thing. In their case, it appears that Java is about half as fast and consumes 2-18 times as much memory as C++.