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Originally it was intended as a commercial feature, but since JDK 11 Oracle open sourced all previously-commercial features in the JDK, and now it's part of Ope
by pron 8y ago
Originally it was intended as a commercial feature, but since JDK 11 Oracle open sourced all previously-commercial features in the JDK, and now it's part of OpenJDK. It's already available in JDK 11 and 12.
- gigatexal 8y agoI never got to the level where I needed anything more than the stock default GC. But this looks compelling. Does Kotlin and other JVM based languages benefit from it, too?
- pron 8y agoSure. All languages that run on the Java platform[1] can benefit from it, and from most other Java platform enhancements. [1]: I prefer saying Java platform rather than JVM, because a program written in Kotlin shares over 90% of its infrastructure code with a program written in Java (not including the OS), and the JVM constitutes only about 20% of that.