What exactly is HotSpot and how does it relate to JVM and OpenJDK? Is it a library? What exactly does it do? Also, what is the difference between OpenJDK...
I upgraded to the latest Java 7u40 on MacOS X and started getting the following message on the console when launching my application using Eclipse. The app works fine...
Is there any real practical difference between “java -server” and “java -client”? All I can find on Sun’s site is a vague “-server starts slower but should run faster”....
I was benchmarking some code, and I could not get it to run as fast as with java.math.BigInteger, even when using the exact same algorithm. So I copied java.math.BigInteger...
How do you write (and run) a correct micro-benchmark in Java? I’m looking for some code samples and comments illustrating various things to think about. Example: Should the benchmark...