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We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production

EricM
WTF?

What has happened to deterministic behavior?

In which type of "production" system is it desireable to have a program carrying on after some kind of corruption/hang was fixed based on statistical data?

A hanging program at least stops making stupid things. A statistically "fixed" program may do basically anything ,,,

This cure might be worse than the desease.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer my programs to behave deterministically.

If that means failing at a certain event, so be it ...

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