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by moonchild 2090 days ago
The JVMs are amazingly fast.

A majority of the dynamic compilation research goes into JVMs. (The remainder being apportioned mostly to the javascript vms and the clr, with mike pall waving his luajit hat in the distance.)

An overwhelming majority of GC research also goes into JVMs, thanks to Jikes RVM.