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dfox on Nov 10, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apache Foundation to vote down Java 7, protesting ...

But most of this design was done 20 years ago and so used assumptions about CPU performance are mostly wrong for both modern CPUs and modern operating systems. For example overhead of calling virtual and non-virtual method across library boundary on ELF based system on reasonably modern CPU is essentially same.

beagle3 on Nov 12, 2010 [–]

This is a very minor detail - so an optimization that was made 20 years ago is no longer relevant. Neither is it harmful or especially expensive.

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