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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by geodel on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:50PM (#13872228)
Go uses quite a bit less memory than Java.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/go.html

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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by SureshG on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:08AM (#13874774)
As per the Specjbb benchmark, JDK9 compact strings optimization itself provides,

  * 21% memory footprint reduction
  * 27% less GC
  * 5% throughput improvments
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-se-9-cloud - check this presentation for more details.
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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by geodel on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:46AM (#13876443)
Impressive numbers.
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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by pjmlp on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:57AM (#13874525)
Due to value types support, which are part of Java 10's roadmap.
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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by geodel on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:49AM (#13876462)
I'd imagine it will be at least 5 years away when most popular Java software use this feature and java users see the effect of this.
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