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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