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  2. Weighted Companion Cube - Wikipedia

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    The Weighted Companion Cube, or simply the Companion Cube, is an item featured in the Portal series of video games by Valve Corporation.Initially featured in a single level of the original Portal, Test Chamber 17, as one of Aperture Science's ubiquitous Weighted Storage Cubes with heart symbols printed on the outside, it is given to the game's main character, Chell, as part of the antagonist ...

  3. Java version history - Wikipedia

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    Some programs allow the conversion of Java programs from one version of the Java platform to an older one (for example Java 5.0 backported to 1.4) (see Java backporting tools). Regarding Oracle's Java SE support roadmap, [ 4 ] Java SE 23 is the latest version, while versions 21, 17, 11 and 8 are the currently supported long-term support (LTS ...

  4. Java (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (), [16] meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. [17]

  5. Green thread - Wikipedia

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    In Java 1.1, green threads were the only threading model used by the Java virtual machine (JVM), [8] at least on Solaris. As green threads have some limitations compared to native threads, subsequent Java versions dropped them in favor of native threads. [9] [10]

  6. Spawning (video games) - Wikipedia

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    All player characters typically spawn at the start of a round, whereas some objects or mobs may spawn after the occurrence of a particular event or delay. When a player character respawns, they generally do so in an earlier point of the level and get some kind of penalty. [1] The term was coined by id Software within the context of its game, Doom.

  7. Classpath - Wikipedia

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    Classpath is a parameter in the Java Virtual Machine or the Java compiler that specifies the location of user-defined classes and packages. The parameter may be set either on the command-line , or through an environment variable .

  8. Apache Hadoop - Wikipedia

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    The job tracker schedules map or reduce jobs to task trackers with an awareness of the data location. For example: if node A contains data (a, b, c) and node X contains data (x, y, z), the job tracker schedules node A to perform map or reduce tasks on (a, b, c) and node X would be scheduled to perform map or reduce tasks on (x, y, z).

  9. Java performance - Wikipedia

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    Early JVMs always interpreted Java bytecodes.This had a large performance penalty of between a factor 10 and 20 for Java versus C in average applications. [5] To combat this, a just-in-time (JIT) compiler was introduced into Java 1.1.