Ben Evans revisits his take on Java's Missing Features from 2015 and compares how the language has evolved since then compared to his observations from the time. (more…)
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Provide an initial iteration of an incubator module, jdk.incubator.vector, to express
vector computations that reliably compile at runtime to optimal vector hardware instructions on
supported CPU architectures and thus achieve superior performance to equi... (more…)
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Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers... (more…)
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In 64-bit Hotspot, Java objects have an object header of 128 bits: a 64 bit multi-purpose header (‘mark’ or ‘lock’) word and a 64-bit class pointer. With typical average object sizes of 5-6 words, this is quite significant: 2 of those words are al... (more…)
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Posted by James Lau , Product Manager At Google, we always try to do the right thing. Sometimes this means adjusting our plans. We know ... (more…)
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