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01/03/2005: "Smack my bitch down"

Slava Pestov has a scathing review of the source code for Java's JIT engine, Hotspot, and the sun.* classes.

Java zealots love to say that Java isn't slow anymore, that Java's memory consumption is justified, etc. But the Java runtime is so badly coded that its a wonder it works at all!