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Not until JVM supports value types, low level pointer manipulation and reiffed generics.

In addition to that, the .NET runtime supports tail calls but the JVM does not, IIRC.

Yes, JVM still has it under "some day it would be nice".

Actually this is one of the bytecodes that .NET Native doesn't handle, if I am not mistaken.

2 out of 3 of those are coming in Valhalla. You don't need pointers.

If you want to support F# without performance degradation emulating features, I am not so certain.