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I'm not sure it's trivial. Tuning the JVM is an entire cottage industry. JVM performance experts can make 1000+/day tuning the JVM and are in high demand. Compa

by nvarsj 9y ago

I'm not sure it's trivial. Tuning the JVM is an entire cottage industry. JVM performance experts can make 1000+/day tuning the JVM and are in high demand. Companies spend huge amounts of engineering effort to keep the JVM running smoothly. I used to be involved in this side of things pretty heavily at a HFT firm, which almost exclusively used Java. In my opinion it's a colossal waste of resources. Classic example of using the wrong tool for the job.

koffiezet 9y ago
And it's still cheaper to hire a guy with a skill like that for a few weeks, or even keep him permanently - and keep a larger development team of cheaper C# or Java devs, than it is to replace them all with higher-payed C/C++ devs which would probably take longer to get the same functionality up & running.