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> though the JVM is still quite a marvel of engineering I'm aware that some of those "marvels" were technologies harvested from Self/Smalltalk. But I suspect t
by travisgriggs 4y ago
> though the JVM is still quite a marvel of engineering
I'm aware that some of those "marvels" were technologies harvested from Self/Smalltalk. But I suspect that there have been some innovations in the JVM that I just have not kept up with. When you say it's a "marvel of engineering", which types of things are you thinking of?
- TimTheTinker 4y agoI'm thinking specifically of the runtime performance optimizations. Hotspot is incredibly good at JIT generation of fast machine code.