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The runtime optimisations are remarkable but it does look like runtime performance can change unpredictably. Has this been your experience?



A fair question. In principle this can happen, and HotSpot can respond to changes in the program's execution patterns, but to my knowledge it's not a problem in practice with real-world Java servers. Other than a 'warming up' phase, real-world performance doesn't tend to vary wildly as time progresses.

(Disclaimer: I've not done a great deal of real-world Java work.)


Yes, the JVM tends to speed up over time as it applies these optimizations.




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