This is not an easy question to answer: in fact, there is potentially a lifetime’s study in this. But I can point you to a place to start. It is, at first, incredible to discover just how difficult it is to accurately photograph something that is perfectly flat and doesn’t move. Most of the training […]
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Project Loom: Advanced concurrency for fun and profit Project Loom, an OpenJDK project, is “intended to explore, incubate and deliver Java VM features and APIs built on top of them for the purpose of supporting easy-to-use, high-throughput lightweight concurrency and new programming models on the Java platform.” These features include Lightweight Threads, delimited continuations, and
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Imagine you receive a report of a bug which causes a segfault (i.e. a memory exception) in the HotSpot Java VM very occasionally. This bug only occurs about one time in ten; it might take many hours before it happens. It has only been observed when running one particular piece of proprietary software. It only
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