While I’m at it…
December 2nd, 2007 | Published in lazyweb | 1 Comment
Final question to empty out the pending queue…
Anyone come across any good JVM performance comparisons? Namely Sun vs. IBM. I’m especially curious about app server benchmarks and general desktop usage with Eclipse.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 am (#)
I can’t really speak to actual metrics, but here are a few things I noticed comparing Sun vs. IBM when doing alot of Eclipse and app server work:
1) IBM may claim to have a full implementation of the JVM, but there were several times (especially when related to SOAP/XML code) where the IBM JVM would crash for no good reason. Sun’s didn’t have this problem. (Disclaimer: this was a year and some change ago, so this may be fixed by now.)
2) If you can find all the right settings to tweak (I’ll see if I can dig up the documentation for this), the IBM JVM + Eclipse will run faster than the Sun JVM + Eclipse. Admittedly the difference isn’t *that* huge, but if you’re in Eclipse all day it can be a nice thing to have.
3) I found IBM’s JVM to be less stable. Granted, this may have been trying to mix and match and use both, but I still think that Sun’s seemed to be more reliable.