Misleading performance comparisons: C# vs. Java

In a blog post: The Ultimate Java Versus C# Benchmark the author tried to prove that Java outperforms C# in a real life benchmark.
The benchmark actually measures the performance of regular expressions in both languages (say frameworks).
He concludes the post saying that C# failed even to give the results, and consumed too much memory till an OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
I tried both code samples (C# using .net 2.0, Java using Java SE runtime version 1.6).
The Java version worked as mentioned in the blog post (took about 4031 milliseconds on my PC), the C# version took too long time so I had to terminate it.
I noticed that the whole benchmark is about comparing these lines of code:
C#:
Regex regexpr = new Regex(matchthis, RegexOptions.Compiled);
Boolean b = regexpr.IsMatch(_doc);
Java:
Pattern regexpr = Pattern.compile(matchthis); Matcher matcher = egexpr.matcher(_doc);
boolean b = matcher.find();

When I changed the C# code to:
Regex regexpr = new Regex(matchthis);
Boolean b = regexpr.IsMatch(_doc);

Execution took about 14672 milliseconds. Which is somehow acceptable, even if a lot longer that Java execution time. Note that this version does not compile the regular expression.

When I removed the regular expression comparison from both codes the result was:
C#: 891 milliseconds
Java: 1750 milliseconds

See the difference!!

Conclusion:

1. It's unfair to compare two versions of code written in a way that is optimized for one language but not for another. In .net, compiling regular expressions is good when you are going to reuse them.
2. Taking a single point of comparison (regular expression in this case) is not a valid measurement when you compare two huge frameworks like .net and Java.

I'm not trying to defend C#, and I'm not claim that .net outperforms Java generally. I just suggest that performance comparisons should not be performed by biased persons. The test should not be optimized for one language without the other.

Virtual methods: Java vs C++,C#

When I first learned about OOP, I thought that one of the challenging decisions in the design was to determine virtual functions (I started OOP using c++). However, this became not a big issue as I got more mature in OOD.

Java differs. In Java, all methods are virtual, unless explicitly declared as final.

I was thinking, which approach is better?
My initial thoughts are that Java's approach is better and easier. Maybe it's not good to apply in C++ because virtual tables are used and calling virtual functions cost more than non-virtual. (not sure about the case in Java).

I don't have a complete image yet. Thoughts and comments are welcome.