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Re:I fell in love with low-JS by travisgriggs on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:17PM (#31275263)
> though the JVM is still quite a marvel of engineering

I'm aware that some of those "marvels" were technologies harvested from Self/Smalltalk. But I suspect that there have been some innovations in the JVM that I just have not kept up with. When you say it's a "marvel of engineering", which types of things are you thinking of?

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Re:I fell in love with low-JS by TimTheTinker on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:01PM (#31278849)
I'm thinking specifically of the runtime performance optimizations. Hotspot is incredibly good at JIT generation of fast machine code.
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