JDK 5.0_08 is now publicly available on Java.sun.com!. Another fine day for Sun Java Performance. This is our highest performing and most reliable release to date. We have demonstrated winning performance across Sun's server offering, from x64 Systems to CoolThread servers then all the way up to the Sun Fire E25K.

Winning performance on The Sun Blade X8400, beating BEA JRockit on a comparable system! (Sun Hotspot result, BEA JRockit result)
Winning performance on The Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 benchmark result (T1000 result,T2000 result)
Winning performance on The Sun Fire E25K (benchmark result)

SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire T1000 (1 chip, 8 cores) 60,323 SPECjbb2005 bops, 15,081 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Sun Fire T2000 (1 chip, 8 cores) 74,365 SPECjbb2005 bops, 18,591 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Sun Fire E25K (72-way, 72 chips, 144 cores) 1,387,437 SPECjbb2005 bops, 19,270 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Sun Blade X8400 (8 cores, 4 chip, Solaris 10, Sun HotSpot 5.0_08) 121,228 SPECjbb2005 bops, 30,307 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Fabric7 Q80 (8 cores, 4 chip, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, JRockit 5.0 P26.4.0) . SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 06/19/06 on www.spec.org.