dleskov
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Comment · 8 years ago
TDD only works in conjunction with thorough peer reviews. Case in point: at my place of work, code and tests written by an intern can go through literally dozens of iterations before the check-in gets authorized, and even the senior engineers are not exempt from peer reviews (recent interns are especially eager to volunteer).
Comment · 8 years ago
> if doing GPL stuff use the open source license from ExcelsiorJET.
Thanks for mentioning our product, but I have to make a few corrections:
First, the Excelsior JET Runtime license is sadly not GPL-compatible. Also, you cannot use it to target embedded systems, unless you buy Excelsior JET Embedded and pay royalties, though we are currently weighing the option to switch to OpenJDK to eliminate the latter.
Second, the Standard Edition is free even for commercial use (the above limitations apply).
Finally, other editions are available at no cost for use in public non-commercial projects. It does not matter whether the (software part of the) project is open source or not.
See https://www.excelsiorjet.com/free for details.
Comment · 9 years ago
Problem is, the God Folder dates back to Vista and it is the Windows 10 Creators Update that began setting that field to NULL. Apparently the author of that change did not foresee any backward compatibility issues.
Comment · 9 years ago
Excelsior guy here.
Overall, I would say that AOT suddenly becoming kosher helps our business way more than competition hurts it.
Then, "JDK9 has AOT out of the box" is a bit of exaggeration. Oracle AOT is only available for Linux/x64 ATM, yields huge binaries and may be a bit cumbersome to use: http://mjg123.github.io/2017/10/04/AppCDS-and-Clojure.html
The main difference however is that a binary produced by Oracle AOT is to a big extent just a pre-populated HotSpot cache, whereas Excelsior JET has been AOT-centric since day one. In practice that means that with Oracle AOT you have to ship both the native binary and the original class files to your customers, and with Excelsior JET you only ship the native binary, which makes reverse engineering your application more difficult.
I recall us being quite surprised when a customer survey had shown that IP protection is more important than application performance for many of our customers, even though it was just a byproduct of our optimization efforts.
Comment · 9 years ago
Author here. Kindly (suggest where to) cross-post - I think it's important for the health of our industry that freeware authors and open source enthusiasts keep getting rewarded for their efforts. Thank you.
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