Comment by hhandoko

VMs adds a noticeable overhead / performance hit.

Besides the benefits the new JIT provides, Zing will help you if your workload runs with / consumes over 8GB of RAM. At this point, HotSpot GC pauses [1] starts becoming noticeable (i.e. jitter).

Notes:

[1] - http://www.azul.com/resources/azul-technology/zing-consisten...