It wasn't for the first JVM; it was for HotSpot, the JIT engine that replaced [1] Sun's previous JVM in 1999. HotSpot was developed by the same team that worke

It wasn't for the first JVM; it was for HotSpot, the JIT engine that replaced [1] Sun's previous JVM in 1999. HotSpot was developed by the same team that worked on Strongtalk [2], including the linked submission's author Bracha, who were later acqui-hired by Sun [2]. See also my previous comments that summarize this and recount the achievements of the rest of the Strongtalk team, who all went on to be significant contributors to various domains [3][4]. [1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076604/hotspot--a-new-breed-of-virtual-machine.html http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076604/hotspot--a-new-bree... [2] http://www.strongtalk.org/history.html http://www.strongtalk.org/history.html [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160439 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284279