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Finally watched the whole thing, thanks again! Interesting and reassuring. Esp. the end: for Oracle, altruism is collateral damage.

Value types would be helpful to a serialization algebra I've worked on.

I can google this, but since this 2014 talk, do you know the real world adoption of java lambdas, and actual performance benefits of their parallelism? I really liked Steele's re-tree idea, but doesn't seem to have that much benefit. Of course, if no dependencies between data, speed up should be great). The real issue is performance is mostly not an issue - hence python/ruby success.