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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by aethr on Sunday May 12, 2013 @02:19AM (#5693357)
Although with most JVMs being written in C, JRuby is still running on something that was built in C.
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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by pjmlp on Sunday May 12, 2013 @08:15AM (#5693999)
Some of them are actually meta-circular, by being implemented in Java itself.

Oracle's Project Graal plans to replace the C++ JIT by a Java one. This is based on the work of the Maxime VM.

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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by glurgh on Sunday May 12, 2013 @02:32AM (#5693370)
Sure but that's true for almost all software. It's turtles/C[++] nearly all the way down, if you pick a particular way of looking at it. Besides, a modern JVM JIT does not emit C.
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