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Re:UCSD Pascal pioneer Ken Bowles has died by tomjakubowski on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:53PM (#18162827)
TIL Symantec made the first Java JIT! Did HotSpot use any code from their implementation or was it more of an inspiration?
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Re:UCSD Pascal pioneer Ken Bowles has died by WalterBright on Sunday October 07, 2018 @07:33PM (#18163197)
My colleague Steve Russell was the implementer of the JIT. Steve was a true wizard with x86 assembler code. You can see his work here:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink

I don't think HotSpot used any code from it, but I can't be positive about that. But Symantec's JIT was so obviously a huge improvement, every vendor had to have it or be left in the dust.

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Re:UCSD Pascal pioneer Ken Bowles has died by mwcampbell on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:11PM (#18163898)
> My colleague Steve Russell

Is that the same Steve Russell that hacked Spacewar and implemented the first Lisp?

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Re:UCSD Pascal pioneer Ken Bowles has died by WalterBright on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:29AM (#18164134)
He's way too young for that :-)
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