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Graal is Maxime's successor. Oracle is planning eventually to replace the C++ based JIT with Graal in some version following 8.
Source? I'd like to read up a bit more about this. Update: found this: http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2012_SPLASH_Truffle_Sl...
Then i'd actually read this powerpoint!
But in all seriousness if this becomes like LLVM and well developed it could be extremely helpful. .
However, i'm sure Oracle would find an awesome way to make it "oracle enterprise trademarked" and make it into some silly product that aggravates more people than even java which might be impressive!
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How very open-minded of you. At least consider the project on it's metrics, not on your distaste for a particular corporation.
Being under control by Oracle is part of it's merits, and it counts massively negatively for a lot of us.
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Actually, most companies that aren't Google (finance, government, military, enterprise) realized that simply sticking with Oracle is even a better move. I don't know if you know this, but Oracle is making more money (profit) than Google (Oracle is also a much larger company than Google). They wouldn't be doing that if people were staying away from them. Lawsuit aside, even Google itself (and Facebook, and Twitter) ru…
there may be more reasons other than technical that large businesses run on Oracle (database). The amount of paid "consultants" that oracle pushes thru to make their sale, plus their tactic of charging what you can afford to pay, as well as the "can't get fired for buying IBM" mentality of large IT organizations means that oracle has a distinct advantage over any small competitor. Not that oracle's tech isn't good, b…
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there may be more reasons other than technical that large businesses run on Oracle (database). The amount of paid "consultants" that oracle pushes thru to make their sale, plus their tactic of charging what you can afford to pay, as well as the "can't get fired for buying IBM" mentality of large IT organizations means that oracle has a distinct advantage over any small competitor. Not that oracle's tech isn't good, b…
I was mainly referring to Java, not to Oracle DB. There aren't really good alternatives to Java.
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I was mainly referring to Java, not to Oracle DB. There aren't really good alternatives to Java.
.NET is a fine alternative in 80% of the use cases. Honestly, in half of the projects I see coming through, the only reason java is a requirement is because everything else is already in java; the only hang up is DB2/MSSQL/Oracle drivers.
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Because it's not really a good VM. It's full of good ideas, but also full of cruft and years of technical debt. It doesn't have a JIT compiler, (nearly) no async IO, threading support is pretty new and not battle-tested nor documented very well.
Sounds like Perl 6!
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Sounds like Perl 6!
Rakudo on the JVM does use a JIT compiler. Surprise!