In terms of JDK performance improvements, I think it's usually about GC and the Java virtual machine itself, which means most (if not all) Java applications should benefit from, I believe OAP is not an exception 😂.
> On Feb 13, 2023, at 21:38, Sheng Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > About more aggressive, do we have any tests or do we have anyone to > run some perf. tests on JDK 17 as a comparison? > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > 陆家靖 <[email protected]> 于2023年2月13日周一 21:35写道： >> >> +1 >> >> Shall we move directly to JDK17 as Spring Boot 3 has done? >> >> The overall performance in JDK17 is much better than the previous versions. >> And ZGC is production ready since JDK15. I suppose OAP would benefit from >> this. >> >> Regards, >> Jiajing >> >> Sheng Wu <[email protected]> 于2023年2月13日周一 21:27写道： >>> >>> Agree. With a server, we could upgrade to a newer version of JDK. >>> Let's see whether we could commit JDK 11 and JDK 17 compiling support, >>> and run in JDK 11 officially. >>> >>> Sheng Wu 吴晟 >>> Twitter, wusheng1108 >>> >>> kezhenxu94 <[email protected]> 于2023年2月13日周一 21:14写道： >>>> >>>> Hi all, recently I've merged a pull request[1] that migrates our tests in >>>> main repo >>>> from junit 4 to junit 5, I've also verified the tests passed in Java 11 >>>> and above, >>>> now, I'm proposing to upgrade the minimum required Java version, including >>>> development environment (JDK version), and runtime environment (JRE >>>> version) to Java 11. >>>> >>>> Java 8 is a popular version, there are a lot of projects still using it, >>>> but fact is fact, Java 8 is really old and there are lots of fascinating >>>> features >>>> in Java 11 that we will benefit in our development experience, there are >>>> also >>>> some performance improvements that we will benefit at runtime, so I would >>>> be >>>> really excited if we could bump up the Java version to Java 11. >>>> >>>> What do you think? If you have any concern, please reply here and we can >>>> discuss >>>> more before we make a decision, if you are excited too to upgrade the Java >>>> version, >>>> please vote here! >>>> >>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/10382
