> I think it may be useful to specify which version of OpenJDK 7 was used as > significant differences exist.
Recent tries have been made on Oracle JDK for MacOSX: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode) >> * Under OpenJDK 8 I get ~0.75s in the same conditions, which is >> severely slower. > > Probably useful to say which build was used here too Custom build from jdk8/jdk8. The behaviour has been observed for some time. Here I have a build from last month: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b50, mixed mode) - Julien