Red Hat has introduced a new Java distribution, Mandrel, that compiles Java applications directly to native code. As a fork of GraalVM, this decreases startup time and memory usage. (more…)

Java.util package provides an IdentityHashMap class which implements the Map interface with a hash table, using reference-equality in place of object-equality when comparing keys (and values). In other words, in an IdentityHashMap, two keys k1 and k2 are ... (more…)

Introduces a new Metal driver for executing TornadoVM workloads on Apple GPUs. The implementation is largely based on the existing OpenCL backend, adapted for Apple's Metal Shading Language (MS... (more…)

In-memory Java DataFrame library. Contribute to dflib/dflib development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

A JEP draft has been created with the title, "Switch Expressions for the Java Language." The current "Summary" states, "Extend the switch ... (more…)