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peapicker on May 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do we really still need a 32-bit JVM?

Another consideration is that many shops have in place C and C++ code that is 32 bit, which hosts JVMs and uses JNI to talk to them.

lbearl on May 26, 2015 [–]

Yep, and that code isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Big, boring, slow moving enterprise software. I work on one of these systems.

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