Trie Update: 20.12.2009 1. Characters vs. Bytes 2. On Character Strings 3. Yooster (from: Text Encoding) Update: 21.12.2009 Busting java.lang.String.intern() Myths How Hotspot Decides to Clear SoftReferences Presenting the Permanent Generation Update: 12.1.2010 Memory usage of Java Strings and string-related objects
Read moreTO interrupt, or to NOT interrupt, that’s the question
In other words: How InterruptedException should be dealt with in Java? Some answers: Java theory and practice: Dealing with InterruptedException Exception-Handling Antipatterns Dealing with InterruptedException
Read moreMore compact XML parsing?
Any java developer who has touched standard java DOM parser, knows that this default XML parser coming with JDK is extreme memory hog. And this boils down into bad overall performance (yes, memory allocation is still not free in java). On that basis following API sounds interesting: VTD-XML: The Future of XML Processing. Interesting point…
Read moreCustom RMI?
RMI has lot of overhead, but even worse part is how it operates as ”black box”. Thus various mechanisms are hidden deeply inside framework, there ain’t any finetuned control over how, for example, sockets are pooled and such. So is there alternatives? For simplicity lets ignore all alternatives, which are not supporting standard Java Serialization….
Read moreNIO + SSL + ServerSocket == wtf?!?
Okey, This (SSLServerSocketChannel) actually looks promising starting point… Appears to be part of larger API/framework called Tammi. However, I’m not so sure that all points mentioned on this FAQ are really covered. As summary: Making NIO to work with SSL (in server side sockets) is big-pain-in-the-ass. Some references: SSLEngine Using SSL with Non-Blocking IO Tricks…
Read moreNIO as cache buffer
Interesting idea: If there is need to (due to performance) to cache large number of objects in memory, what if, instead of using java heap to keep objects, elements would be stored in NIO native byte buffer. In theory that should (a) reduce java heap usage, (b) allow better usage of process memory space (i.e….
Read moreSynchronization and Serialization
One thing to be noted from RMI serialization, like any serialization in java is that serialization of the object doesn’t automagically ensure transactional consistency. In other words, if there is some object, which is modified by the background worker thread, and this same object instance is passed via RMI call to client, then it’s possible…
Read moreJava Strangeness
Interesting knowledge about JIT: Is Your JIT Telling You Lies? Especially interesting is how micro benchmarks lie, which means that trying to trick JIT compiler to do compilation in such small benchmark, can actually give rather misleading results.
Read moreThanks for the memory
Thanks for the memory Some interesting points: 1: … When a JVM’s Java heap is swapped out, the garbage collector’s performance becomes extremely poor, to the extent that the application can appear to hang. If multiple Java runtimes are in use on a single machine at the same time, the physical memory must be sufficient…
Read moreAre you kidding me? JDK 6 in OSX
Finally, it’s starting to become slowly reality. Namely JDK6 is appearently default JRE in newest OSX version, which is just being published. Which means that we need to wait only 1,5 years until it is safe to base into using it (considering the fact that it takes some times to upgrade all the macs, and…
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