I'm guessing the JVMs have gone a long way on optimization (or maybe they're using JIT)

Also not sure about how optimized are the C# sources in relation to the Java sources

For example, in the Mandelbrot benchmark there are several differences

- Java uses more arrays

- C# and Java use different break conditions

- Calculations are done differently (with similar results)

Overall they're doing the same things, the C# is more like I remember it, so I'm guessing the Java code has some smart tricks up its sleeve