Side Effects of running the JVM in debug mode

Question

I\'d like to realease a Java application in debug mode to allow for easier debugging when random or hard to reproduce problems occur on the customer side.

However, I

Answer 1

The program definitely does lot more than simply running when in debugging mode, so it is obvious that performance can not be same. However if you read the statement carefully, it says that new release can run fully optimized code even if in debugging mode which was not possible earlier. Thus the new jvm is much more faster than previous one which could only run in interpreted mode which no optimization.