Using induction to design algorithms
Communications of the ACM
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From the Book:Performance has been one of the dominant concerns hovering around Java from its infancy. Regardless of an order of magnitude speedup resulting from just-in-time (JIT) compilers, HotSpot, and other advances in JVM technology, the performance issue is still a legitimate concern. The reality facing Java programmers is that it is very easy to write slow Java programs. Java is a performance mine field and expert guidance is a must. Given the importance of performance to Java developers, it is somewhat surprising that no book has been dedicated to this important topic. Almost any other Java-related issue has had multiple books dedicated to itRMI, JNI, JDBC, threads, networking, and the list goes on. Conspicuously absent has been Java performance. It has been mentioned in passing by many authors but, to my knowledge, rarely has there been more than a chapter discussing it. This book is aiming to fill that gaping hole. It is entirely focused on Java performance issues from start to finish. This book is written for Java programmers by a Java programmer. This is an important fact. It is very likely that the Java performance issues that I have dealt with in my code will surface in your code as well. The Java optimization techniques that you will find here will significantly elevate the performance and scalability of your Java programs. There's plenty of material to cover. Let's get started.