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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by math on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:14PM (#9462182)
The CLR offers a lot of functionality that the JVM doesn't (see Someone123's comment) - which in my opinion makes is it a lot more compelling - so in that way it is more sophisticated than the JVM.

A reference to back your statement up would be great... (i couldn't find a good one quickly). Are you aware of the capabilities of the CLR's next generation RyuJIT? What you say is at odds with what I thought, but I'd love my perceptions to be corrected if they are indeed incorrect.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by pron on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @10:07PM (#9462934)
> The CLR offers a lot of functionality that the JVM doesn't (see Someone123's comment)

Yes, some, but those differences are being quickly erased. The most important one is value types, which are being added to Java. See my reply to someone123.

RyuJIT's capabilities are nowhere near HotSpot's (I'd say they're about 7 years behind), and HotSpot's next-gen JIT (Graal) is another huge leap forward. The CLR's GC is also far behind HotSpot's selection, let alone offerings by other JVMs (there are many JVMs to choose from).

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