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For a video game, I suppose it was random 'enough'.

Actually, I'm mainly using Scala now with the Java 8 JVM. Regardless though, the reason for either Java 8 or Scala for my current project would be because of what I was building. I…

I realise I'm not answering this question directly (although I am using Scala and Java 8 in my own startup project), I thought it might be applicable to leave these here: http://ww…

Ah, yes, didn't consider that. But what about 'this'?; for what reason could the JVM choose to GC an object that the calling thread is currently running in? The example method exis…

I only have an amateur interest in JVM development, but doesn't this bug break some rules around GC 'object roots'? Even if 'child' and 'something' are referentially copied to loca…