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Re: Moving to Java 5?

by Charles Oliver Nutter-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> On 7/23/07, *Thomas E Enebo* <tom.enebo@...
> <mailto:tom.enebo@...>> wrote:
>
>     Could people who respond say what they are using in production and
>     when they moved from Java 1.4 if using something newer (it may be
>     entertaining to know if anyone is still using 1.3 or earlier to)?
>
>
>
> I'm currently porting the Ruby/EventMachine library to JRuby and am
> developing and testing on Java 6. (I'm using various Java-5 features so
> Java/EventMachine probably won't run on 1.4.2.)
>
> (By the way, performance is decent but not spectacular, and noticeably
> less than the MRI version. And the problem isn't in the Java code, which
> in Java-only testing is nearly as fast as the original C++ version.)

Any specifics you can provide will be helpful, especially in the form of
benchmarks that are good illustrators of performance differential.

- Charlie

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