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Graal is Maxime's successor.

Oracle is planning eventually to replace the C++ based JIT with Graal in some version following 8.




Source? I'd like to read up a bit more about this. Update: found this: http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2012_SPLASH_Truffle_Sl...


http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/8/8e/GraalJVMSummit2011...

http://java.sys-con.com/node/2166548

http://www.slideshare.net/vinayhulgar/java-8-selected-update... - Just a brief reference on the item list for possible upcoming features


No ByteCode in between, sounds a lot like v8, and incidentally that guy works on V8 previously.


That is really, really, cool.




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