What’s the difference between a senior Java developer and a Java architect? One can walk on water and the other can run. Put their resumes side by side, and their skill sets pretty much read the same: ...

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While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture because ...