Mark McLaren's Blog

Benchmarks are tedious to run. You have to compile the code, execute the tests, record the results, create charts and tables. Then the benchmark becomes out of date as soon as a new compiler, JRE or CPU is released.

So I’ve created JavaSpeed, an Eclipse plugin to run a small set of performance tests based on this benchmark. The screenshots are self-explanatory:

You can also compare against a Microsoft-compiled C++ set of tests:

(Note: I couldn’t compile the C++ Hash and Hash2 tests so ignore those two zeros)

To install this plugin, download this zip file and extract it into your eclipse plugins directory.

Finally, this is more a proof-of-concept than a rigorous benchmark. Feel free to grab the source code and improve it.

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