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JavaOne Demo of HotSpot

Posted by Mike Funk on 16 Jun 1998, 7:33 AM

> > Has anybody given this thing a try? There's been quite a buzz lately,
> > like to hear from someone who has worked with an early beta.
> >
> The only people outside Sun who I've heard have seen Hotspot
> are Java licensees. Those folks are likely under NDA and wouldn't
> be able to tell us anything about what they saw. I certainly
> haven't seen it in action, just heard about it in theory.

> bv

Yes, several thousand people saw a very impressive demo of HotSpot at JavaOne. A Java application using HotSpot performed 150% faster than an identitical application in C++. Both applications created and destroyed 10 million objects. The Java application finished in 2.2 seconds, while the C++ application took 5.5 seconds. Since Java is a true OO language, this is a telling and important demo.

Regards, Mike

• was this a real application? or a carefully-chosen demo? Jonathan Brumley 06 Jul 1998, 3:16 PM (0)
• JavaOne Demo of HotSpot Peter Bonney 16 Jun 1998, 11:46 AM (0)