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Imagine you happen to walk up to your ATM when it's Mother Banking System is in the middle hotspot compile followed by a GC pause. What would you do if your AT
by oso2k 12y ago
Imagine you happen to walk up to your ATM when it's Mother Banking System is in the middle hotspot compile followed by a GC pause. What would you do if your ATM took 5 minutes+ to respond to your Withdrawal Request?
You'd probably freak out and worry about getting ATM card back.
- chrisseaton 12y agoThe program doesn't have to stop to run the JIT - it can run it on a background thread.
- copsarebastards 12y agoHotspot compilations are blocking? That would surprise and horrify me.
- duaneb 12y agoI would hope an ATM isn't built to use a stop the world GC along with a stop the world jit compiler. I hope you realize how absurd you sound making an argument against jit with a real time device.