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The title thesis here (which is that upgrading to the latest JVM from an older JVM will save a lot of money) isn't well-supported by the article, which doesn't
by rattray 6y ago
The title thesis here (which is that upgrading to the latest JVM from an older JVM will save a lot of money) isn't well-supported by the article, which doesn't really make claims stronger than "performance is somewhat better".
There's no breakdown of how much better in terms of how much money you'd save based on the number of servers you're running.
Conversely, there's no estimate of how much a migration from Java 8 to Java 15 or 16 would cost in developer time.
- mikemybytes 6y agoThanks for the feedback! (author's here) IMO the problem with calculating precise savings is there is no "standard" use-case that could be used as a reference. I took one real-life application as an example in order to be more precise than just "it's somewhat faster", but the benefits will differ based on many different things (platform, app size, frameworks, etc.).