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		microcolonel on Aug 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binari... Seems maybe strange to run a JIT on a JIT. There are some smaller JVMs that likely wouldn't need to be that different, but running HotSpot on WASM, particularly in the browser, seems strange. Why not compile your classes to WASM instead?

richdougherty on Aug 21, 2019 [–]

Java would work ok with AOT compilation. The major thing missing for running Java and many other languages on WASM would be garbage collection.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...

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