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ptx on Dec 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Live...

Are you sure it "was never a design objective"? Clearly the objective was never achieved, but since Java was initially aimed at set-top boxes, tablet-like devices and web browser applets (all interactive client-side applications) it would be strange to design it exclusively for server-side batch processing.

Jimmy123456789 on Dec 25, 2019 [–]

~100 milliseconds startup is good enough for those applications. ~10ms startup is not specified as one if its design goals https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/intro-141325.html

edit: and as I mentioned above, the HotSpot VM is specifically, explicitly optimized for long running applications.

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