I ran 100,000 tasks on a Core 2 Duo to see if Virtual Threads are truly the ‘Great Equalizer’ for old hardware.

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Exploring the evolution of the Java Virtual Machine: A deep dive into GraalVM’s Graal compiler versus OpenJDK’s C2. We examine Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, polyglot capabilities, and why ‘write once, run anywhere’ is getting a significant performance upgrade.