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> how much bigger Isn’t it already crazy big? Not sure this was holding it back.
by therealdrag0 5y ago
> how much bigger
Isn’t it already crazy big? Not sure this was holding it back.
- twoodfin 5y agoThere are many niches where Java & the JVM are absent or fighting an uphill battle to occupy at all. Of those I’m aware of, the only ones where value types wouldn’t help fitness tremendously are on the client side, already a lost cause.
- kaba0 5y agoWhat would those niches be? Non-openjdk JVMs occupy even ultra-niche use cases like hard real time, military usage, embedded (though arguably Java ME is just a subset of Java, so you may or may not consider it the same), and the other direction of crazy performant server machines is well-served by OpenJDK — apparent in how is it used on a very very huge percentage of all web servers with top companies relying on it almost exclusively (apple’s servers are mostly Java, google has plenty of java applications, alibaba is a java webshop, twitter runs scala with graal, etc). Just an interesting note, OpenJDK’s GCs can handle heap sizes well into multiTERAbyte ranges.