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		pjmlp on Nov 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief interview with Common Lisp co-creator Dr. ... Also thank you Oracle for buying Sun, when no one else cared about it, for improving Java beyond version 6, bringing MaximeVM out of Sun Labs research into GraalVM research labs, integrating JRockit JIT caching and VM monitoring into OpenJDK, and caring about AOT compilation when Sun left it for commercial 3rd party vendors.

eternalban on Nov 14, 2022 [–]

This is true. What a surprise that has turned out. A lot of us were boohooing Oracle buying Sun. I ate my hat on that one.

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