FriendOfFalcons

Oh, I’m dumb. Thanks for clearing this up :)

I’m not so sure if the JVM startup was the culprit in your situation. The Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows that even for short runtimes, the startup doesn’t affect their performance numbers that much

This is actually a very cool and insightful blog post. I’d have liked if the code was worked better into the written text however. I mean it didn’t dive deep into it’s Java usage or the specifics of the JVM, other than it being very well optimized for short lived objects.

However, the precise performance numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. I’d classify this as a micro benchmark and those can often be influenced by stuff like cache locality and other small details and could look quite different on other machines.

If we randomly assume they were halfway down (no idea on where they actually were but as a blind guess 50% is a good starting point)

The wreck was found 500m away from the wreck of the Titanic, the Titan descends in a curve and not straight downwards, gives pretty good indication that they were near the depth of the ocean floor. Combine that with the fact that they descended faster than anticipated and that they lost communication right around the time they were supposed to reach the lowet point, I think they were close to the ocean floor.

But cautiously saying half is probably better.