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Re:Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops i... by gjm11 on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:29AM (#2820753)
"These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release, so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs" -- this is very, very broken. They had time to not release a version of Java with known wrong-code and crashing bugs affecting real code.
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Re:Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops i... by tmcw on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:53AM (#2821480)
For sure. Though, I was impressed that he got through every paragraph without even a hint of the snark that this deserves.
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Re:Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops i... by smcj on Friday July 29, 2011 @05:03AM (#2820850)
Mitigation would just have required to make an optimizer option non-default, like in 6.
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