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Re:Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Just... by gizmo on Sunday November 06, 2011 @06:18PM (#3204232)
JRuby just piggybacks on Java. That doesn't invalidate my point, as far as I can tell.
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Re:Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Just... by DanielRibeiro on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:55AM (#3205193)
JRuby uses the JVM. Java is the language. Same point: language != implementation. Not always, but nowadays we have many mature vms, so it is more common.
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