The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations. If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for ...

Oracle has made Java 16, also known as Oracle Java Development Kit 16, generally available ... In addition, there are three new incubating features in Java 16: The Vector API, the Foreign Linker API ...

After much hand-wringing about the wisdom of introducing this feature, Java developers everywhere have simply adopted it like it is the most obvious thing ever. Didn’t Java always let us do this?