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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Opensource and JVM Ports
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Volker Simonis (@volker_simonis) about:
discussion about carnivorous plants,
explanation of how different carnivorous plants capture prey through movement,
glue,
or digestive fluids,
Utricularia uses vacuum to catch prey underwater,
SAP's interest in developing their own JVM around Java 1.4/1.5 era,
challenges with SAP's NetWeaver Java EE stack,
difficulties maintaining Java across multiple Unix platforms (HP-UX,
AIX,
S390,
Solaris) with different vendor JVMs,
SAP's decision to license Sun's HotSpot source code,
porting Hotspot to PA-RISC architecture on HP-UX,
explanation of C++ interpreter versus Template interpreter in Hotspot,
challenges with platform-specific C++ compilers and assembler code,
detailed...