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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by wolf550e on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:12PM (#17649044)
Welcome to 1995 and the wonderful world of Java. Except in Java you can use threads to use multiprocessing, so you can have efficient shared data structures but also hard to debug bugs.
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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by emp on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:11PM (#17649456)
Don’t forget 1987 and the Self language from which Java got Hotspot. Fascinating language and runtime: http://www.selflanguage.org
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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by stochastic_monk on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:27PM (#17649147)
C++ also does this. A variety of projects, such as MXNet, use JIT compilation. Native compilation gets you far, but there are times where dynamic compilation gets you farther.
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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by lovelle on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:58PM (#17649363)
I would argue that in 95 was recently the first jdk 1.0 release, it was until 2004 which came java 5 with java.util.concurrent which was such huge improvement for that time, since then is easier to write concurrent software, and since java 8 is a wonderful experience!
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