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Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by rossjudson on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @11:56PM (#47421453)
And yet Java outruns pretty much all of them, because it doesn't actually allocate everything on the heap all of the time. And you've been able to declare and work with larger structures in raw memory for ... 20 years? You mostly don't need to, but sometimes you want to win benchmark wars.

And of course it's getting value types now, so it'll win there too. As well as vectors.

Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f... by Mawr on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:19PM (#47429344)
Post benchmarks. No, ones where you use 20x the memory of Rust to do the same job 1% faster don't count.