The Performance Cutoff

Monday, November 10th, 2008

A few days ago I had a small epiphany on a simple yet important issue. I was trying to squeeze those last few percents of performance out of JavaRebel and it came to the point where I started optimizing individual hotspots method-by-method.
One of the most common ways to improve execution time of a specific method [...]



What do we really know about non-blocking concurrency in Java?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

If my yesterday’s post taught me anything it’s this: not that much. This post is a result of a lengthy chat with Heinz Kabutz and Kirk Pepperdine (who really do know something about non-blocking concurrency) as well as comments on the post and the Reddit entry.
When I put together the yesterday’s post (When System.currentTimeMillis() [...]