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"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other. The post should take about 5-10 minutes to read. As such, it goes deep for only a single topic, a single test,

"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other. The post should take about 5-10 minutes to read. As such, it goes deep for only a single topic, a single test,

The Java Language and JDK Class Library have two distinct, yet connected, ways to group elements: arrays and Collections. There are pros and cons for using either one, so both are prevalent in real programs. To aid conversion between the two, there are standard methods to make a reference array appear as a Collection (e.g. Arrays.asList), and to copy from Collection to array (e.g. several Collecti

Java Microbenchmark Harness (the lesser of two evils) Aleksey Shipilev aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com, @shipilev The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisi

Programming languages like Java provide the facilities for subtyping/polymorphism as one of the ways to construct modular and reusable software. This language choice naturally comes at a price, since there is no hardware support for virtual calls, and therefore runtimes have to emulate this behavior. In many, many cases the performance of method dispatch is not important. Actually, in a vast major

This is a very long transcript for a very long talk. The talk’s running time is close to 120-150 minutes, and transcript may take even longer if digested thoughtfully. Please plan your reading accordingly. There are five large sections which are mostly independent of each other, that should help to split the reading. The talk is correct to the best of my knowledge, but parts of it may still be inc

With a plethora of new languages coming and going, people frequently try to do the cross-language performance comparisons. In most cases, that’s a strange thing to do, because even the minute differences in implementations can drive the benchmark scores off the cliff. It’s difficult even to compare a single small change in the otherwise stable environment. Trying to do the same when language compi