Ok, I see. Technically a JIT compiles to native code too, so for a long running ...

trailfox on Aug 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scala vs. Go TCP Benchmark

Ok, I see. Technically a JIT compiles to native code too, so for a long running app there shouldn't be much difference. Both Go and Java are garbage collected, but the JVM has the more sophisticated GC.