Yeah, I'm not a Java fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but an 10+ year-old benchmark running on an obsolete JVM running on an obsolete OS, running on obsolete hardware (multi-core what?) are not horribly relevant to making technology decisions today.
BTW this is 10 years obsolete. I appreciate an Erlang mob as much as the next hacker, but there must be better Erlang links than this.