On Friday, April 16, 2010 11:44 AM, Agile Aspect wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Christopher Chan > <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Any comments as to Centos/RHEL 5.3's openjdk implementation versus Sun's? > > RedHat has acknowleged that Sun's JDK is faster - despite the fact > OpenJDK is native. Since it's native, it also means it's not platform > independent (in the sense of compile once run anywhere.) Argh, it appears that I have gotten so used to installing the jdk, it does not click when all I actually want at the moment is the jvm. How do the jvms compare? > > See the Fedora mailing list - there was discussion about a year ago. > Sun's JDK is faster eh...I guess that is sad news.