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Careful. Hotspot compiling was introduced with the JVM.
by js4all 16y ago
Careful. Hotspot compiling was introduced with the JVM.
- bad_user 16y agoThere is prior art in Smaltalk and Self ... the Hotspot compiler itself is an old Smaltalk implementation that Sun bought, open-sourced recently by SUN btw ... http://www.strongtalk.org/ http://www.strongtalk.org/
- loewenskind 16y agoI'm pretty sure the prior art was just with Self. Smalltalk had polymorphic cache tables, but it was Self that was doing really aggressive in-lining of those caches (e.g. in-lining the method and all code the method called right into the cache). Strongtalk was a Smalltalk implementation of the result of the Self research (plus optional H&M type checking) but before they released anything they got bought by Sun to get the expertise for their up coming HotSpot VM. So bottom line: Oracle may actually own all prior art via Sun (Self research was done at Sun).