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1 replies - 7199 views - 10/01/11 by Mark Miller in News
Imagine you love to cook; it's an intense hobby of yours. Over time, you've accumulated many fun spices,
but your pantry is too small, so, you rent an off-site storage
facility, and move the less frequently used spice racks there. Problem
solved!
4 replies - 4164 views - 04/27/11 by Michael Mccandless in News
Update: Terracotta emailed me some clarification on some comments made by Azul below about their BigMemory technology:"The response times (cache operation latencies) Terracotta sees in its tests are fractions of milliseconds. Their benchmark delivers...
8 replies - 9440 views - 10/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Last month, Terracotta told DZone that they were working on a module for Ehcache and Hibernate users that would bypass the Java garbage collection bottleneck. The severely limited heap size allowed by the Java garbage collector (if you don't want to have...
19 replies - 25704 views - 09/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Caching is at the core for data management in applications, says Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta. Too much time is spent tuning the size of the heap to keep application performance fast and predictable. Garbage collection is to blame for making an...
9 replies - 7932 views - 08/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Ok, now I really want to go to JavaOne. I just found Oracle's new Content Catalog, which indexes all of the JavaOne, Oracle Develop, and Open World sessions for you to search - essentially making our acceptance-day list on DZone obsolete (but not in vain! ...
0 replies - 5238 views - 07/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Memory management is done automatically in Java. The programmer doesn't need to worry about reference objects that have been released. One downside to this approach is that the programmer cannot know when a particular object will be collected. Moreover, the...
6 replies - 10389 views - 05/07/10 by Muhammad Khojaye in Articles
Compaction is a lesser known facet of garbage collection. In this article, I'll discuss how important it is for Java performance. Left untamed, compaction can come back to haunt you. Find out how it works, where the problems lurk and how to make them go away.
2 replies - 10404 views - 09/15/08 by Nick Maiorano in Articles
Does you appllication use a WeakHashMap with a String key? Pause. Here is something you need to know, while working with such a WeakHashMap. This article is extracted from couple of posts made on my blog.
8 replies - 7253 views - 06/23/08 by Bharath Ganesh in Articles
Jon Masamitsu wrote up a great post summarizing the current collectors in the Sun JDK and also how combinations of these young and old collectors are triggered by different JVM switches.
0 replies - 8178 views - 02/02/08 by Alex Miller in News
