really good talk about the Hotspot VM

[extrawurst via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 07:36:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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.)

Interesting insights! Thank you!