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by akerro 2983 days ago
I actually work on low latency Java backends, I have no idea how this works ;)
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rmrfrmrf 2983 days ago
> low latency Java

(Does not compute)

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akerro 2983 days ago
Sure it doesnt ;)

The think that myth is coming from the fact that JVM is heavy (150MB?), so it takes time to start, and hot-spot needs some iterations on a source code before it can fully apply JIT, but other that that, Java is really good.

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