I see your point now, thanks for the explanation. I mostly do scientific calculations, so effectively manipulations of array of doubles, and I currently mostly use C#. I was under the impression that the performance is similar to C++ (GPU aside), for that the comparison with Java had got my attention.
Even though C# is in many ways like Java, it allows (via unsafe blocks and pointers) to better perform memory management. Not sure how widely it is used in practice.
