20 Years of Java
summary
A 20-year engineering narrative that traces concrete wins and failures: the tiny 1.5MB JDK 1.0 and interpreted VM gives way to HotSpot and JITs; a startup builds a JRockit virtual machine, ships a 2004 product with green-thread experiments and sells to BEA; manageability work becomes Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder, later bundled with Java 8; generics, concurrency APIs and invokedynamic arrive; Itanium struggles, x64 and G1 GC change the game, OpenJDK and Jigsaw complete the turnaround.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 6:46A boy gets his Commodore 64
- 37:18The Benchmark Wars
- 41:43Latency Analysis Tool
- 54:20JVM Architecture observation
