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Smaller newsletter this month due to Flu (me) and holiday (Javva).

A note from this newsletter's sponsor

We still have our usual lists of Java performance tools, news, articles, and we also have a review of what people were most interested in reading at our sites and, as usual, we have extracted tips from all of this month's articles.

A note from this newsletter's sponsor

News

Java performance tuning related news.

• poll to determine the biggest java news of the year (not performance related, but seeing as it's December ...)
• Dimorphic loop unrolling and its friends
• Azul + GemStone ally to provide hugely scalable datagrids
• Not Java, but an excellent description of the nitty gritty process in tracking down a performance problem, including the inductive leaps you often need to make. Next time someone wants to understand performance troubleshooting, point them at this blog entry.

Tools

Java performance tuning related tools.

• JInspired's JXInsight application performance management solution
• Non-blocking hashmap
• The Grizzly framework has been designed to help developers to build scalable and robust servers using NIO.
• JPPF (Java parallel processing framework) is a grid toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run your applications in parallel

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Articles

• What people were looking for in Java performance in 2007 (Jack Shirazi/Fasterj.com)
• Performance Anti-Pattern: No-stress Testing (Kirk Pepperdine/kirk)
• Prepared Statement Performance In mysql (Viktor Szathmary/Eu Edge)
• Interview with Holly Cummins on Java Garbage Collection and Improving Application Performance (Kirk Pepperdine/TheServerSide)
• Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site (Steve Souders/Yahoo)

Jack Shirazi

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