We have now Java 1.8, let's read some well explain articles.   Here are some I have extracted.   Interesting Feature  Here are the new Java 1.8 features :   Lambda expressions  Remove the Permanent Generation  Small VM  Parallel Array Sorting  Bulk Data Operations for Collections  Define a standard API for Base64 encoding and decoding  New Date & Time API  Provide stronger Password-Based-Encryption (PBE) algorithm implementations in the SunJCE provider   Here is the full list of the features of Java 1.8 .    Performance  According to the article shows that Java 1.8 performance is similar to Java 1.7.   Here are the results:      Java 1.6  Java 1.7  Java 1.8    Test 1  3564ms  3653ms  3614ms    Test 2  27265ms  28773ms  28326ms    Test 3  6220ms  6579ms  6231ms    Test 4  408ms  428ms  423ms    Test 4 (parallelSort)    193ms       Read more:    http://ttux.net/post/java-8-new-features-release-performance-code/  https://vaadin.com/blog/-/blogs/no-need-to-wait-java-8-it-s-great   
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