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Re:Background: how we got the generics we have (2020) by kasperni on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:33PM (#26662730)
A Parametric VM [1] is part of Java's project Valhalla. However, it is currently some releases away.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/parametric-vm.pdf

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Re:Background: how we got the generics we have (2020) by _old_dude_ on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:55PM (#26663061)
Very cool, it seems to be the best of both worlds, the specialization of the class/fields is done the first time a specialized type is instantiated while the specialization of methods is done by the JIT.

And the VM can specialize on any values, not just types.

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