News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on My favorite bug: segfaults in Java. Parent comment

Re:My favorite bug: segfaults in Java by Terr_ on Sunday March 29, 2015 @01:33PM (#9285666)
The compiler doesn't (shouldn't) know what the runtime system will look like, so it cannot make optimizations as safely or effectively as the JVM can.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:My favorite bug: segfaults in Java by TheLoneWolfling on Sunday March 29, 2015 @05:20PM (#9286527)
Except that, as evidenced by this case, the JVM isn't doing the optimization either!
[ Parent | on HN ]