Java 10 contains a pretty big change when it comes to the G1 Garbage Collector, and it's an improvement

There are many interesting performance improvements coming up in future versions of Java, let's take a look at the three most exciting ones.

A lot of JVM commandline options, like -XX:+AggressiveOpts sound like they may improve application performance but can often slow it down.

Meltdown can have a large or a small impact on your workload depending upon how your system is configured or setup.