really good talk about the Hotspot VM

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On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 06:51:27 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 17:37:44 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:30:05 +0000, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>
>>> The speaker has 30 years of experience working on javas 
>>> hotspot vm
>>
>> How is this possible?  Time travel?
>
> was wondering the same :D

It wasn't the case, but it could have been possible as the 
starting point for HotSpot VM was developed for other languages 
than Java.

If you look at the first point:
    "HotSpot started as a Self VM ported to Java"

Self is 28 years old and had eventually a VM based on a 
Strongtalk VM by another company that begun development 21 years 
ago. Sun bought it 18 years ago and released HotSpot 16 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongtalk
https://code.google.com/p/strongtalk/

(Lars Bak worked on Strongtalk VM,  HotSpot, V8 and Dart VM… so 
they are probably related designwise, one way or another.)