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Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf] by desdiv on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:14PM (#12053075)
>There's sun.misc.Unsafe, but that isn't available on every JVM implementation.

There's also talk about the possible removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9¹.

¹ http://blog.dripstat.com/removal-of-sun-misc-unsafe-a-disast...

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Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf] by stickfigure on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:08AM (#12053830)
Jeeezus... I've been writing Java since before many HNers were born, and somehow I never noticed that class.

The Oracle people are right about this one. Rip it out and sterilize the wound with fire.

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Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf] by needusername on Friday July 08, 2016 @06:52AM (#12054630)
Oracle backpedaled from that pretty quickly.
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