title: C++ vs Java for server application
body: <p>i need to make low latency server, where raw data throughput is less important than the ability to handle thousands of simultaneous connections. I don't know what language to use. Java is simpler, development will be faster, nice interface for all what i need + good support for networking (JAVA NIO and selector class). But actually i don't have much experience with java beside programming, so even if i read things like java isn't today slower then native C/C++, still have some doubts about the performence, because c/c++ is compiled to binary code, but java .class files are interpreted, so there MUST be overhead in that translating. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Can someone post his own experience?  </li>
  <li>Have someone low latency app
  programmed? </li>
  <li>What you mean is better to use for that type of
  application?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>EDIT: App will be server for support real-time on web applications (like chat, etc.)</p>