My pet peeve is arithmetic. In the JVM, you either get efficiency and arithmetic modulo some power of 2 (which is incorrect for most applications) or you get inefficiency. A number of the Puzzles in the Java Puzzlers book are based on this unfortunate feature of the Java language that is baked into the JVM. In the pre-Java days, dynamic languages had efficient arbitrary precision arithmetic (typically using tagging or exceptions on overflow). I feel we've moved backwards in this respect. It would be a very good thing if our favorite VM allowed us to have the best of both worlds as in days of old.
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