Recent Intel® enhancements to Java enable faster and better numerical computing. In particular, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) now uses the Fused Multiply Add (FMA) instructions on Intel Intel Xeon® ...

Since my trusty C++ compiler produced fast math code, I just needed to call these math routines instead of the slow StrictMath routines from my Java program. Java Native Interface (JNI) enables Java ...

When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...