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IBM Releases Fastest SDK For Java 6

Posted by kdawson on from the early-start dept.

IndioMan writes "IBM is releasing an SDK for Java 6 and is sponsoring an Early Release Program to gather feedback from the Java community. Product binaries and documentation are available for Linux on x86 and 64-bit AMD, and AIX for PPC for 32- and 64-bit systems. In addition to supporting the Java SE 6 Platform specification, IBM's SDK also focuses on platform stability, performance, and diagnostics. It's tops on every benchmark."

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  1. Re:Open Java? by VGPowerlord · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sun didn't want to delay the launch of Java 6, so it's Java 7 that's open source.

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  2. Re:The Fastest JDK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Funny, but even Sun's JDK blows Perl out of the water.

  3. Re:The Fastest JDK? by Yosho · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why did the parent modded as troll? It's quite true. For example, look at The Computer Language Shootout. Sun's JVM is much faster than Perl in almost every benchmark except for startup times. Perl's memory consumption is somewhere better, but not even close to the same degree that Java is faster.

    Those benchmarks are based on Java 1.5, too. 1.6 is even faster.

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