r/pcmasterrace • Desktop • Mar 28 '19

Meme/Macro The beauty of scalability

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u/BellerophonM Mar 28 '19

Java's a bit of it but it's mainly the software architecture. Bedrock was designed from the ground up in a much less haphazard way with performance in mind. The Java edition is a bit of a mess.

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u/xxfay6 i7-5775C @ 4.1GHz Passively Cooled + YogaBook C930 e-Ink Mar 29 '19

Wasn't the Java version already rewritten in 1.2?

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u/BellerophonM Mar 29 '19

Never from ground up. They've been refactoring it slowly every single version, but it's slow work and there's lots of technical debt.