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Re:Java Polyfill for the Browser by epicureanideal on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:28PM (#11655943)
Excellent execution, and very cool idea.

Somewhat in jest let me say, "People are complaining that JavaScript is a terrible language. Great, let's put Java in the browser." Now we have an even worse language to code in for the browser.

Note: jvilk explains the perfectly valid reason for this library in another comment below.

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Re:Java Polyfill for the Browser by capitalsigma on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:46PM (#11656062)
Having Java's powerful multithreading constructs available in the browser is a pretty big deal, I think.
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Re:Java Polyfill for the Browser by vesinisa on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:32PM (#11656313)
As I understand the Doppio paper, they just simulate JVM threads in synchronous JavaScript. So there does not seem to be added performance benefit at least.

It's still a very neat hack, though!

https://plasma-umass.github.io/doppio-demo/paper.pdf

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