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JAVA: Java Server Performance Report (InfoWorld)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Thu Sep 17 00:09:22 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 16 Sep 1998 23:02:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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Are you interested in the best Java(TM) performance?
InfoWorld has just completed testing of a variety of server operating
systems and Java virtual machines (JVMs), including a beta version of JDK
1.1.7 with Warp Server SMP. The results?
Well, here's a quote from that report:
"To fill this need, the InfoWorld Test Center built a server-side benchmark
capable of accurately exercising these systems. In looking at the results,
the good news is that if Java is supposed to be slow, someone forgot to tell
IBM, because they are taking performance very much into their own hands and
are producing Java virtual machines (JVMs), operating systems, and hardware
that seem almost uniquely optimized for server-side Java."
And another:
"What did cause at least a few minor tremors was OS/2, and here a direct
comparison is quite valid. Except for the first data point, the OS/2
numbers are two to three times more than the NT numbers, and at least that
for only the best Linux numbers. It seems that IBM has done some good work,
although the JIT compiler in IBM JDK for OS/2 is still in beta testing and
may not be the same when it is released. Changing the garbage collection
settings improved performance a little, but not enough to make it worth
having to restart your computer to clean it out. No where else did garbage
collection make a significant difference either."
Performance matters, and IBM is totally committed to developing high
performance Java and web technologies for all its platforms.
Need more information? You can read the entire InfoWorld report on the
Internet at
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980914analysis.htm.
For more information on IBM's "Aurora" e-business server please visit
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/aurora.
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