The other way to see this is that a powerful runtime allows to write more straight-forward code.
Allocation in the heap allows for much more powerful programming constructs as n object owns it’s own memory layout. Back in 1990 the cost of pointer indirection was virtually free. The need for stack allocation came up only somewhat recently. And the value object model Oracle has come up is infinitely more powerful than what comparable languages are offering.
The trend in performance is allocating more jobs to the runtime. In HPC, this is already the de-facto standard.
Allocation in the heap allows for much more powerful programming constructs as n object owns it’s own memory layout. Back in 1990 the cost of pointer indirection was virtually free. The need for stack allocation came up only somewhat recently. And the value object model Oracle has come up is infinitely more powerful than what comparable languages are offering.
The trend in performance is allocating more jobs to the runtime. In HPC, this is already the de-facto standard.