Thank you to all that gave feedback :-)
Russel, could you elaborate a bit on the incompatibilities you mention ?
On 08.03.2018 15:45, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:09 +0100, mg wrote:
Hi,
I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with using
alternative JVMs with Groovy, especially Azul (https://www.azul.com/)
?
Licensing costs for long term OpenJDK support seem to be much lower,
and the JVM has additional benefits such as an elastic memory model
(JVM memory is dynamically allocated/deallocated from the os),
continuous concurrent garbage collection without freeze-the-world
fallback, and application startup (warmup) time improvements.But I am
worried about Groovy compatibility (they only mention Scala
explicitly on the web page)...
Cheers,mg
On Debian Sid I use Azul JDKs (Zulu 8 and Zulu 9) because they provide
a deb repository and it is easy. On Fedora Rawhide I use the Fedora
provided OpenJDK, Azul do not provide a Fedora rawhide rpm repository,
but they do provide a RHEL/CentOS one. Why not the Debian provided
OpenJDK and ignore Azul? It comes down to being told Debian Sid OpenJDK
was unreliable and that I should trust Azul.
I have discovered some incompatibilities of Groovy 2.4.14 running on
Zulu 8 compared to Zulu 9. I have yet to try on Fedora OpenJDK to see
if it is an Azul problem or a Groovy problem.
I am not about to use OracleJDK ever again.
Obviously though I am always using the free versions, I do not pay a
licence fee.
