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IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 (eclipse.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the just-in-time dept.

IBM has open sourced a "high performance, scalable virtual machine" with "a great pedigree... [it's] at the core of many IBM enterprise software products." Slashdot reader dxb1230 writes: IBM has open sourced their JDK/JVM implementation named J9 as OpenJ9. The community now has an alternative implementation of Java which has been well tested on enterprise workloads and hardware. This unlike, OpenJDK, has all the bells and whistles like jit.

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  1. OpenJDK no JIT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you saying that OpenJDK doesn't have a JIT compiler? That seems untrue.

  2. Re:Why Java? by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of the Java code out there isn't GUI code, and yes, high portability is one of the major reasons. And honestly, I have compiled code written 15 years ago that still runs on newer JVMs

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