This API provides classes to express vector computations that, given suitable hardware and runtime ability, are accelerated using vector hardware instructions. When run on a supporting platform, operations can be executed in parallel by the hardware. This style of parallelism is called Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) parallelism. By using the API for vector computations, […]

Pattern Matching for switch was proposed as a preview feature by JEP 406 and delivered in JDK 17, and proposed for a second preview by JEP 420 and delivered in JDK 18. This JEP proposes a third preview with further refinements based upon continued experience and feedback. For those who are not familiar with this

The Foreign Function and Memory API (FFM API) is designed to allow developers to access data and code outside of the Java Runtime. The API allows accessing native libraries and native data without having to use JNI. The main goals of this API are: Simplicity: To replace the Java Native Interface (JNI) with a more

In JDK 16, the instanceof operator was extended to accept a type pattern and perform pattern matching. Thanks to this, the instanceof-and-cast idiom could be simplified. Instead of writing developers can write If the pattern matches, the pattern variable s is initialized to the value of o cast to String. s can then be used