There are times, however, when the use of another programming language makes more sense. Because the Type 2 JDBC driver uses a language other than Java, this is often referred to as a native-API ...

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

The JIT compiler can translate this directly without the need for autovectorization. This is what the Java Vector API, introduced as an incubator module in JDK 16, is designed to do.