Scott Sellers, Azul President, CEO & Co-founder, breaks down why Oracle’s recent pricing changes could be the tipping point in accelerating the shift towards third-party Java runtimes
State of Java Ecosystem Report
May 6, 2023 by
Observability leader New Relic released its State of Java Ecosystem Report based on data gathered from millions of applications providing performance data. The in-depth look at one of the most popular programming languages is especially timely given new version releases and the rise of containers.
Intel AVX Gives Numerical Computations in Java a Big Boost
March 22, 2018 by
Recent Intel® enhancements to Java enable faster and better numerical computing. In particular, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) now uses the Fused Multiply Add (FMA) instructions on Intel Intel Xeon® PhiTM processors with Advanced Vector Instructions (Intel AVX) to implement the Open JDK9 Math.fma()API. This gives significant performance improvements for matrix multiplications, the most basic computation found in most HPC, Machine Learning, and AI applications.
