Java 8 Benchmarks

Project for analysing the performance impact of Java 8 changes: both language wise and in terms of libraries.

How to run

Set JAVA_HOME to point to java 8 build 88
Install GS-Collections from (https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections)
git clone https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections.git
mvn install
Go into the java-8-benchmarks directory
`mvn package
Run org.adoptajsr.RunBenchmarks

Current Implementations

Dot Product of 10 million entity vector
Auto-correlation
Re-encode strings into different character sets
Purchase Recommendation system (a la Amazon)

needs imperative version

Ideas for future Benchmarks

Image Convolutions

blurring
feature detection via sobel

K-Means Clustering