BeagleBoard is a family of powerful single-board computers designed for embedded systems and education. These posts explore BeagleBone boards, hardware projects, GPIO programming, and Java applications on BeagleBoard platforms.
In my “Java on Single Board Computers” series, I already published several posts and videos in which I unpack the board, connect it for the first time, and try to install and run some simple Java code. In this post, I want to share some benchmarks of Java on these boards to get a better idea of the performance we can expect from Java on these platforms.
After my initial struggles with the BeagleV-Fire in a previous video, I succeeded in getting Java 25 running on RISC-V-powered BeagleV-Fire! Let me walk you through the journey and the steps I took to make it work.
As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve asked various suppliers to send me evaluation boards. I already published these:
As I shared in previous posts, I want to learn and experiment more with different types of single-board computers in 2026. But I also want to keep them organized and easily accessible. Following the Clean Desk Policy (CDP) in my little home-office also keeps my mind clean :-)