Star Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista
Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 19th Dec 2008 09:04 UTC, submitted by Michael
Benchmarks From Phoronix: "Have you ever wondered on what operating system Java works the best? While by no means is it a conclusive multi-platform comparison, for this article we ran a number of Java benchmarks on both Windows Vista Premium and Ubuntu Linux to see how the Java Virtual Machine performance differs. In addition, when running Ubuntu we had tested Sun's official Java package as well as the OpenJDK alternative."
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RE[4]: The Tests
by rexstuff on Fri 19th Dec 2008 16:13 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: The Tests"
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2007-04-06

I should hope not. Solaris (and Sun OS) predate Java by a wide margin. As with operating system, Solaris will have been designed to work under a large variety of workloads. To tune your whole OS just so another tool released by your company gets a performance edge seems silly to me.

Edit: typo

Edited 2008-12-19 16:14 UTC

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RE[5]: The Tests
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Fri 19th Dec 2008 17:33 in reply to "RE[4]: The Tests"
Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
2006-07-14

The Java market is huge. If it gives them an advantage in a huge market, it might make business sense for them to do it. Increasing profit, is not a silly reason.

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RE[5]: The Tests
by spiderman on Fri 19th Dec 2008 21:23 in reply to "RE[4]: The Tests"
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2008-10-23

Actually, I believe it is the other way around: Sun optimizes java for Solaris. Anyway, Solaris has several threading models...

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