Bare metal Java

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Argues that recent Panama APIs make the JVM far more hardware-friendly: MemorySegment (spatial, temporal and thread-confinement bounds) plus MemoryLayout let Java allocate and safely manipulate native memory with alignment checks and VarHandle-style atomic/volatile semantics; Linker provides downcalls and upcalls so C can call back into Java via generated stubs. Demonstrates a working signal handler and an SDL-based game using jextract-generated bindings and an OpenJDK build, proving the approach actually runs and interoperates with native libraries.

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" chapters (11)

1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 3:07Managed vs. native runtimes
3. 7:15Why Java for high-performance
4. 11:06Foreign memory and linkers
5. 13:43Memory segments and scopes
6. 23:20Var handles and method handles
7. 31:57Unsafe memory access
8. 34:02Downcalls and native linking
9. 38:04Upcalls to Java
10. 43:23Game engine demonstration
11. 51:23Closing thoughts and Q&A

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