This is a review of 10 PHP frameworks. "PHP frameworks are the latest hot topic in the PHP community, and new frameworks are being released daily. With over 40 frameworks available it's difficult to decide which framework works best for you"
JVM startup time was included in these results. That means even with JVM startup time, Java is still faster than C++ in many of these tests. With some tweaks and lots of resources.
an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. Includes a memory error detector, two thread error detectors, a cache and branch-prediction profiler, a call-graph generating cache profiler, and a heap profiler. It also includes two experimental tools: a heap/stack/global array overrun detector, and a SimPoint basic block vector generator.