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Right, so this isn't news in that it's new technology. It's news in that the JVM is becoming a better platform & catching up, technologically, to where other la
by oconnor0 18y ago
Right, so this isn't news in that it's new technology. It's news in that the JVM is becoming a better platform & catching up, technologically, to where other languages have been for years.
One nice thing about this is that all JVM languages get this improvement. Will it allow for more functional programming to be done? I wonder what it'll do for non-Java performance - say for Scala, JRuby, Clojure, etc.
- calambrac 18y agoYou don't have to wonder, the paper (http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf http://research.sun.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf) tells you. It will drop throughput a little bit, but much less than you'd maybe think given that you're gaining more predictable pauses that you'll actually be able to configure yourself. Also, be more skeptical of what stcredzero is saying. He's dismissing this out of hand, but its pretty clear he doesn't really know what he's talking about. This actually is a cool new technology. Java has had what he's complaining about for years, the vast majority of its existence, in fact.