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0 pointsmikepurvis7y ago0 comments

The JVM provides native primitives around memory and thread management which are not present in x86, but that's a matter of degree.

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x86 provides all sorts of memory abstractions. The whole memory segmentation model is an abstraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation

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0 pointsmikepurvis7y ago0 comments

The JVM provides native primitives around memory and thread management which are not present in x86, but that's a matter of degree.

x86 provides all sorts of memory abstractions. The whole memory segmentation model is an abstraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation

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