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Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java licenseSun yanks FreeBSD's Java licensePosted Jan 11, 2005 4:57 UTC (Tue) by cajal (guest, #4167)In reply to: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license by landley Parent article: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license
The only "advantage" java has over a modern interpreted language like Python is the ability to distribute closed-source binaries. That, and Java's VM is lightyears more advanced that CPython's. Python has a global interpreter lock, so it's hard to scale it up, thread-wise. It's unable to defragment its heap and release unused memory back to the OS. It doesn't have generational or parallel garbage collection. It doesn't natively have a JIT, nor does it profile code as it runs for further optimization. It's not possible to write lock-free algorithms in Python Python is one of my favorite languages, but for enterprise work, it just doesn't hold a candle to Sun's HotSpot JVM or IBM's JVM.
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