Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 19:49 UTC, submitted by amerigo5
This morning Sun officially released Java 6 for download after over two years of development. The Java 6 development cycle has been the most open of any Java release with weekly builds available to the public and extensive collaboration between Sun and over 330 external developers. Sun has worked with over 160 companies to ensure backwards compatibility, stability and optimum performance of applications running on the JVM.
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2005-11-15
From my first tests of the full version (I tried out the beta but decided not to base any conclusions on it, though they were good), it has sped up my Java applications such as PCGen, JAlbum and Azureus by a considerable margin. PCGen in particular feels easily twice as fast.
When I shuffle off home again, I'm going to try out the world's biggest, nastiest, most brutal Java application (in my experience, anyway) called Dunjinni which catalogs and loads a good amount of over 3,000 images before popping up, and bogs my AMD-64 machine to the max until it's good and ready to give me an interface. Bad programming meets Java latency... I'm hoping this app will really show the mettle of Java's new standard performance or break miserably and show me that Dunjinni and I are going to part ways for good. Usually it takes as long as 5 minutes to give me a user interface, if you can imagine.
Kudos to Sun for improving their language flagship and I look forward to the GPL version being tightly integrated into my operatings systems in the future.
Edited 2006-12-11 20:34