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Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:14AM (#16903097)
I actually work on low latency Java backends, I have no idea how this works ;)
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Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by rmrfrmrf on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:41AM (#16903287)
> low latency Java

(Does not compute)

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Re:Show HN: ReactCircle – Renders SVG circle and percentage by akerro on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#16903300)
Sure it doesnt ;)

The think that myth is coming from the fact that JVM is heavy (150MB?), so it takes time to start, and hot-spot needs some iterations on a source code before it can fully apply JIT, but other that that, Java is really good.

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