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TIL Symantec made the first Java JIT! Did HotSpot use any code from their implementation or was it more of an inspiration?
by tomjakubowski 8y ago
TIL Symantec made the first Java JIT! Did HotSpot use any code from their implementation or was it more of an inspiration?
- WalterBright 8y agoMy colleague Steve Russell was the implementer of the JIT. Steve was a true wizard with x86 assembler code. You can see his work here: https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink I don't think HotSpot used any code from it, but I can't be positive about that. But Symantec's JIT was so obviously a huge improvement, every vendor had to have it or be left in the dust.
- mwcampbell 8y ago> My colleague Steve Russell Is that the same Steve Russell that hacked Spacewar and implemented the first Lisp?
- WalterBright 8y agoHe's way too young for that :-)