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One of the biggest barriers against adoption of these newer formats is the lack of pure java implementations for use server side. The Java wrappers around a na

One of the biggest barriers against adoption of these newer formats is the lack of pure java implementations for use server side. The Java wrappers around a native binary are helpful, but for many projects not very useful and this hinders adoption. https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Sponsor+needed%22 https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues?q=is%3Aissue...

adityapatadia 6y ago
Is JAVA still a thing?
- theduder99 6y ago
  for sure and it is probably doing the heavy lifting behind many of the companies+governments you interact with.
grishka 6y ago
Using Java code for things that are this performance critical doesn't feel like a good idea. It will work of course, but it will probably GC a lot, and while modern JVMs do JIT, the code they generate can't be as optimal as something that has manual SIMD optimizations.
- lmm 6y ago
  Using C code is how you get the next cloudbleed. I'm happy to pay a performance cost for the sake of memory safety.
  - iomcr 6y ago
    Fix this easily by abstracting the manipulation of user uploaded files to chroot/serverless.
    - lmm 6y ago
      That doesn't fix the problem. The process can still fix any data that it has access to, which includes other users' confidential uploaded files.
mbStavola 6y ago
Honestly, you'd benefit more from idiomatic bindings rather than a pure Java implementation. There are quite a few high quality Java libraries that wrap C/C++ code but maintain a nearly 1:1 API, which is what ends up making them difficult to work with. OpenCV is a good example of this.