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Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

Christopher Schnick of XPipe details the pitfalls of shipping the JDK's new ahead-of-time (AOT) cache in a real desktop application distributed to users: how training runs and cache creation work, conditions under which the cache is silently ignored, JVM crashes caused by CPU feature mismatches between build and user machines, and the build scripts XPipe now uses to roll it out safely.

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