STOCKHOLM, Sweden and SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 21, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Appeal Virtual Machines, a technology leader in producing manageable, high performance Virtual Machines for the Java platform, today announced that the newly released 3.1 version of the company's JRockit product has achieved 25,626 operations per second running the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, representing a 23% lead over the closest competitor on identical hardware.*
The tests were run on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 multiprocessor with four 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors running Windows 2000. These performance numbers have been achieved in tests performed by Appeal Virtual Machines and reported to SPEC for publication. More detailed information can be found at http://www.jrockit.com/about/benchmarks.html
"SPECjbb2000 represents an order process application for a wholesale supplier and is close to what you get in the real world on server side Java, short of running actual customer applications. We have exceeded expectations by improving the results on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark by more than 20 % over JRockit 3.0 in just a few months. This is a good indication of how much our customers will benefit from the new version," said David Parker, CEO, Appeal Virtual Machines.
Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit 3.1 features several performance enhancements:
-- Increased performance of the generated code gives faster execution
of Java programs.
-- The newly developed parallel garbage collector efficiently uses
all processors in the system to minimize the garbage collection
time.
-- Improved efficiency of the JIT compiler and runtime system gives
shorter startup time.
-- Optimizations to commonly used Java APIs such as serialization
improves application throughput.
Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit products are designed and optimized for the demands of server side execution of Java technology, including multi-user scalability, non-disruptive garbage collectors, optimizations targeted for multiprocessors, and the ability to monitor and manage the execution of Java technology based applications.
(*) Competitive numbers shown reflect results published on www.spec.org as of Jan 15, 2001. The comparison presented is based on best performing 4-cpu servers with Intel(TM) or SPARC(TM) processors. For the latest SPECjbb2000 results visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2000.
SPECjbbb2000(TM) (Java Business Benchmark) is an industry standard benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java Virtual Machines. It has been created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
About Appeal Virtual Machines
Appeal Virtual Machines has offices in Stockholm (Sweden), Stuttgart (Germany) and San Mateo (California). Appeal's JRockit product line is a family of superior virtual machines for Java, providing customers and partners with manageable, high performance Java operating environments. JRockit is available for Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems. Appeal Virtual Machines is a licensee of Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit is certified as fully compatible with the Java2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), offering companies the option of a manageable and highly scalable JVM without compromising Java compatibility. The company was founded in 1998. Please visit www.jrockit.com for more information, benchmarks and a free trial license.
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