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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by uxcn on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:52PM (#10975111)
Not that I prefer Java where performance is important, but profile based optimization combined with optimizing across translation units is non-trivial. C/C++ compilers have been increasing support for these more recently. Jan Hubicka's blog has a good example [1].

I have to wonder if they plan to keep the codebase portable though. One of the major benefits of Java was that nearly everything has a JVM.

[1] http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2014/04/linktime-optimization-in...

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjmlp on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:55PM (#10975127)
> One of the major benefits of Java was that nearly everything has a JVM.

This was a big deal in the late 90's as C compilers were still catching up with ANSI C and ANSI C++ wasn't done, with each compiler supporting a different flavour of the ongoing work.

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by uxcn on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:28PM (#10975343)
I would guess a lot of stuff wasn't completely POSIX either (still kinda true). It's really only recently C++ added a standard memory model, portable threading, etc... POSIX is even kind of falling behind for this stuff IMHO.
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjmlp on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:00PM (#10976027)
POSIX is basically what should have been the official C runtime, but they didn't want to make it a richer runtime.

At least as I see it.

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