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Java 1.8 (JDK8): What's new?

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



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