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  1. Back in the early days of Java as a member of the orginally 3 person and eventually 4 person Symantec JIT compiler team, a big part of my role was optimizing JVM monitors and garbage collection to shame Sun into improving their PC x86 implementation. The interpreter worked fine on Solaris so why bother with how it runs on PCs? Symantec had pivoted their IDE from C++ to Java and needed the performance to get people on board with Java. C++ was made impossible by Microsoft making it a moving target with library releases. The huge improvement the JVM promised for us was not only write once run on any but also eliminating Microsoft from the picture. The JIT compiler became the standard for the Classic JVM. The eventual 4th member of the JIT team is now Director of SW Development at Oracle.
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