GCs in the news

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 July 2014 at 18:31:46 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-07-20 at 16:40 +0000, Paulo Pinto via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> […]
>> Java has AOT compilers available since the early days. Most 
>> developers just tend to ignore them, because they are not part 
>> of the free package.
>
> Also, it is not entirely clear that AOT optimization can beat 
> JIT
> optimization, at least on the JVM.

Yes it can, if developers bother to do PGO + AOT instead and 
learn the compiler flags.

I used to have a stronger opinion on JIT, but given how many JITs 
perform and do not actually use the hardware as they, in theory 
could, JIT tend to only be an advantage for dynamic languages not 
strong typed ones.

With JIT, writing the code in a way that makes the JIT compiler 
happy is a lost battle, as it depends on the exact same JIT 
implementation being available on the deployment system.

--
Paulo