While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture because ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. “The report of my death,” literary giant Mark Twain once said “was an exaggeration”. Like Twain, Java has had a ...

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...