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Welcome to 1995 and the wonderful world of Java. Except in Java you can use threads to use multiprocessing, so you can have efficient shared data structures but
by wolf550e 8y ago
Welcome to 1995 and the wonderful world of Java. Except in Java you can use threads to use multiprocessing, so you can have efficient shared data structures but also hard to debug bugs.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoC++ also does this. A variety of projects, such as MXNet, use JIT compilation. Native compilation gets you far, but there are times where dynamic compilation gets you farther.
- lovelle 8y agoI would argue that in 95 was recently the first jdk 1.0 release, it was until 2004 which came java 5 with java.util.concurrent which was such huge improvement for that time, since then is easier to write concurrent software, and since java 8 is a wonderful experience!
- emp 8y agoDon’t forget 1987 and the Self language from which Java got Hotspot. Fascinating language and runtime: http://www.selflanguage.org http://www.selflanguage.org