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RealJenius.com is a personal blog at realjenius.com about programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Java Scoped Values: Better ThreadLocals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Quoted by one commenter from a 2009 post distilling how JRuby's JIT compiler works, specifically its description of compiling to a "more native" representation. The comment is off-topic to the Qt thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Java Scoped Values: Better ThreadLocals
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://realjenius.com/2009/10/06/distilling-jruby-the-jit-co... Quote: "JIT compilers are a novel idea: take some code in an “intermediate form”, and, given some heuristics, compile it into a “more native” representation," Note: They write "more native" representation. Quote: "Conversely, in JRuby, the source format is the JRuby AST, and the destination format is Java bytecode. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of…

    Comment linking /2009/10/06/distilling-jruby-the-jit-compiler/

    on “Qt 5.2 Beta Available”
  2. Submitted Distilling JRuby: The JIT Compiler as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Java Scoped Values: Better ThreadLocals as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Java 8 introduces four types of method references as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Java Scoped Values: Better ThreadLocals as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Distilling JRuby: Method Dispatching 101 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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