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It is state of the art in the same sense that America is the uncontested leader in WWE.

• pron 7y ago
  Is it? I've looked hard and couldn't find any runtime that isn't more than five years behind OpenJDK(+Graal) in those areas, but maybe I missed something. I'm not saying it's perfect, but there's nothing out there that's better in those areas.
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    Just to add to your point the only alternative that I would consider is .NET, and even then I do acknowledge that it is behind some JIT stuff, given that they have been favoring AOT / and single JIT scenarios. Without Valhahla we will never get a Java variant of Unity, jMonkey Engine is a good as it gets and it has plenty of native code to overcome the areas where the JVM is found lacking.
  • Scarbutt 7y ago
    You don't need Graal when you have Golang around the corner.
    • pron 7y ago
      We're not talking about the same thing. The innovative parts of Graal are not the AOT compiler.
    • flavio81 7y ago
      Golang's garbage collection system isn't just NOT state-of-the-art; it brings you back to the 1970s. A big pain point there.