logoalt Hacker News

pjmlpyesterday at 3:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Additionally in modern Java there are even the options of AOT and JIT caches, which can be reused across runs.

Or if staying on Linux, JVM snapshots.


Replies

hunterpaynetoday at 2:06 AM

javac doesn't really do a whole lot. Consequently, whatever compile time you are complaining about would be worse with any other compiled language. Most optimization work in Java happens at runtime.

show 1 reply