Re:Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Proce...
by mpweiher on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:56AM
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> It's hard to square these articles with the reality I see on the ground
This is not a new phenomenon: back in 2000, the IBM System's Journal had a special issue on Java. Most of it was filled with articles detailing how amazingly awesome performance now was and getting better all the time.
The last article in that issue was from IBM's San Francisco Project, the only one with real-world usage. Which reported much more, er, "mixed" results. More accurately: atrocious performance on their real-world tasks, and a lot of extra engineering effort to get it to work at least half reasonably.
This is not a new phenomenon: back in 2000, the IBM System's Journal had a special issue on Java. Most of it was filled with articles detailing how amazingly awesome performance now was and getting better all the time.
The last article in that issue was from IBM's San Francisco Project, the only one with real-world usage. Which reported much more, er, "mixed" results. More accurately: atrocious performance on their real-world tasks, and a lot of extra engineering effort to get it to work at least half reasonably.
(I write a little more about this in "Jittterdämmerung" https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html)