Published: 11:10 21.01.2002 GMT+1 /HUGIN /Source: Appeal Virtual 
Machines /SSE: APP /ISIN: 

Appeal Virtual Machines Achieves Record Performance on SPECjbb2000 
Benchmark with JRockit 3.1 JVM

JRockit performs 23% better than previous record for  the SPECjbb2000 
benchmark on a 4-way configuration  with Intel processors.

San Mateo, CA, January 21, 2002. Appeal Virtual Machines, a 
technology leader in producing manageable, high performance Virtual 
Machines for the Java platform, today announced that the newly 
released 3.1 version of the company's JRockit product has achieved 
25,626 operations per second running the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, 
representing a 23% lead over the closest competitor on identical 
hardware.* 

The tests were run on a Dell PowerEdge 6400 multiprocessor with four 
700 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors running Windows 2000. These 
performance numbers have been achieved in tests performed by Appeal 
Virtual Machines and reported to SPEC for publication. More detailed 
information can be found at 
http://www.jrockit.com/about/benchmarks.html

"SPECjbb2000 represents an order process application for a wholesale 
supplier and is close to what you get in the real world on server 
side Java, short of running actual customer applications. We have 
exceeded expectations by improving the results on the SPECjbb2000 
benchmark by more than 20 % over JRockit 3.0 in just a few months. 
This is a good indication of how much our customers will benefit from 
the new version," said David Parker, CEO, Appeal Virtual Machines.

Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit 3.1 features several performance 
enhancements:
 
· Increased performance of the generated code gives faster execution 
of Java programs.
· The newly developed parallel garbage collector efficiently uses all 
processors in the system to minimize the garbage collection time.
· Improved efficiency of the JIT compiler and runtime system gives 
shorter startup time. 
· Optimizations to commonly used Java APIs such as serialization 
improves application throughput.
 
Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit products are designed and optimized 
for the demands of server side execution of Java technology, 
including multi-user scalability, non-disruptive garbage collectors, 
optimizations targeted for multiprocessors, and the ability to 
monitor and manage the execution of Java technology based 
applications.

(*) Competitive numbers shown reflect results published on 
www.spec.org as of Jan 15, 2001. The comparison presented is based on 
best performing 4-cpu servers with Intel(TM) or SPARC(TM) processors. 
For the latest SPECjbb2000 results visit 
http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2000. 

SPECjbbb2000(TM) (Java Business Benchmark) is an industry standard 
benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java Virtual 
Machines. It has been created by the Standard Performance Evaluation 
Corporation (SPEC).

For more information, please contact:
pr@jrockit.com
Appeal Public Relations in United States, +1 408 832 5244
Appeal Public Relations in Europe, +46 (0)70 710 62 83

About Appeal Virtual Machines
Appeal Virtual Machines has offices in Stockholm (Sweden), Stuttgart 
(Germany) and San Mateo (California). Appeal's JRockit product line 
is a family of superior virtual machines for Java, providing 
customers and partners with manageable, high performance Java 
operating environments. JRockit is available for Solaris, Linux and 
Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems. Appeal Virtual Machines is a 
licensee of Sun Microsystems Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 
(J2SE). Appeal Virtual Machines' JRockit is certified as fully 
compatible with the Java2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), offering 
companies the option of a manageable and highly scalable JVM without 
compromising Java compatibility. The company was founded in 1998. 
Please visit www.jrockit.com for more information, benchmarks and a 
free trial license.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java and J2SE, are trademarks or registered 
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other 
countries.








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