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mikepurvis
8y ago
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The JVM provides native primitives around memory and thread management which are not present in x86, but that's a matter of degree.
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fixermark
8y ago
x86 provides all sorts of memory abstractions. The whole memory segmentation model is an abstraction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
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