I repeated the same old Scimark 2.0 benchmark, but now with a server setting for the jvm. The benchmark now runs 165 percent faster! Incredible.
> java -server -cp . jnt.scimark2.commandline SciMark 2.0a Composite Score: 449.17374212032354 FFT (1024): 360.08271871383903 SOR (100x100): 708.6998662588823 Monte Carlo : 62.282009179537155 Sparse matmult (N=1000, nz=5000): 320.3128048768835 LU (100x100): 794.491311572476 java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. java.version: 1.5.0_06 os.arch: x86 os.name: Windows XP os.version: 5.1