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Re:C++11 and Ada 2012 - renaissance of native languages? by loup-vaillant on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:47AM (#4155669)
> Azul Systems July processors designed to run Java, and, in particular, to run garbage collection efficiently

That sounds really interesting. Do we know what kind of feature made these processors more suitable to Java byte-code and garbage collection? How did it fare compared to then current mainstream processors? Can we speculate on how it would have fared if Intel or AMD build this kind of processor instead?

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