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by acdha 823 days ago
Java has worked great on Apple Silicon since release and it’s still working great now for most users. The linked post explains that Java is already using the W^X modes but there’s an edge case involving page faults while the JIT is updating pages, which to me seems suspiciously like an attempted security improvement which needed better testing:

https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?bug_id=8327860