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Over the years, more than a billion lines of Java code have been written in Alibaba. While adopting OpenJDK to run these applications, we have found a need to customize it specifically for large-scale ...

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Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...