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Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 14th Edition
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Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 14th Edition

by Cay S. Horstmann
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
852 pages
26h
English
Pearson
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Chapter 13 ▪ The Foreign Functions and Memory API

While a “100% Pure Java” solution is nice in principle, there are situations in which you will want to write (or use) code in another language. Such code is usually called native code.

Particularly in the early days of Java, many people assumed that it would be a good idea to use C or C++ to speed up critical parts of a Java application. However, in practice, this was rarely useful. A presentation at the 1996 JavaOne conference showed this clearly. The developers of the cryptography library at Sun Microsystems reported that a pure Java platform implementation of their cryptographic functions was more than adequate. It was true that the code was not as fast as a C implementation would have ...

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ISBN: 9780135558775