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Small clarification: the Smalltalk technology absorbed by HotSpot was StrongTalk's static type-based optimization techniques combined with dynamic recompilation
by trashburger 3y ago
Small clarification: the Smalltalk technology absorbed by HotSpot was StrongTalk's static type-based optimization techniques combined with dynamic recompilation (what we now moniker as a JIT) originating from research done with Self (which was also part of Sun at the time).