OpenJDK: Panama

A great improvement, already available for a few Java versions, that most likely Android Java will never support.

Part of Panama is the Vector API, currently in "incubation". Kotlin Notebooks are a great dataframe alternative to pandas or polars in Python (and dplyr in R), and work fine for relatively small data sets, but are indeed slower when dealing with calculations on large data. Vectors should reduce that gap significantly.

I love it how Java is "innovating" by catching up to things that other programming languages have had for three decades.