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Why 64-Bit Java Is Slow

Why 64-Bit Java Is Slow

Posted Jun 27, 2012 2:50 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Why 64-Bit Java Is Slow by ldo
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

JVMs only use interpreter during startup. Then the code is JIT-compiled into native code and it doesn't matter at all whether the bytecode is stack-based or register-based. After all, they can be trivially interconverted.


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