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Microsoft is making lots of performance improvements on .Net Core side. It seem to be lot faster than Java now. With .net core being open source and Cross Platform I think it is still not able to take Javas marketshare. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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Some of the .Net examples literal calls into native code.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

That is hardly a fair comparison.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=4...

These benchmarks are more impressive.

Agreed. A fair comparison would use .Net code and not call the PCRE2 library. Otherwise, why not use JNI and have it call PCRE2 as well?

Please write and contribute that PCRE2 Java program.

Meanwhile here's a C# program that does not use PCRE2:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

As it says — "These are only the fastest programs. Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you."

Plus Oracle is being shady with their licensing terms.

Shady in what way? OpenJDK is licensed under GPL2 with linking exception.

MSFT Employee here who came in via last year’s jClarity acquisition (yes Microsoft now has a Java Engineering Group!). Oracle change the licensing terms on its Oracle JDK (which was the default JDK most of the world used) to something more commercial which some folks thought was it communicated well enough.

There are a ton of free in beer and free in use options. You can look at adoptopenjdk.net for the broadest community led one or azul Zulu for the one that’s been around since even before Oracle made their change

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