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> And we've been doing that for as long as microprocessors have had OoOE Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web

> And we've been doing that for as long as microprocessors have had OoOE Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left? > Java got big right when the first consumer OoOE chips came out in the 90s. Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?

monocasa 8y ago
> Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left? BPF has existed since the mid 90s for one example. > Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant? Java and the client web were next to inseparable concepts at the time. Java ran their VM as a shared library in the browser process for applets.