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Java and Memory Protections

Posted Dec 3, 2006 12:57 UTC (Sun) by fjalvingh (guest, #4803)
In reply to: Java and Memory Protections by jwb
Parent article: Virtual Machines and Memory Protections

One good reason to go native is performance.. Although Java performance is usually great you can get huge performance gains using assembly for specialized problems (like image encoding/decoding/filtering for instance)

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