Today, Sun officially announced SPECjAppServer 2004 scores on our Sun Java
Application Server 9.1, which (as you no doubt know) is the productized
version of the open-source Glassfish V2 project. We've previously submitted
results for SJSAS 9.0 (aka Glassfish V1), which at the time we were quite
proud of: they were the only SPECjAppServer scores based on an open-source
application server, and...
One of those lesser-known features of Java is that it contains two
different bytecodes for switch statements: a generic switch statement,
and an (allegedly more optimal) table-driven switch statement. The
compiler will automatically generate one or the other of these
statements depending on the values in the switch statement: the
table-driven statement is used when the switch values are close to...
