For another look at benchmarking parallel streams, see “ From Imperative Programming to Fork/Join to Parallel Streams in Java 8 ” by Raoul-Gabriel Urma and Mario Fusco (InfoQ, February 2014).

Benchmarking and comparing Java 8 functional-style programming with the imperative-style can be tricky at times. Takipi blogs' recent posting shows us how.

For example, the Streams API focuses on parallel processing of large data sets, and Project Nashorn’s faster JavaScript engine is all about performance in server workloads.