No matter what language they're programming in, developers always wish things would run faster! Especially when writing mission-critical applications, no one wants to be limited by the programming environment.Java Performance Tuning provides all the details you need to know to "performance tune" any type of Java program and make Java code run significantly faster.
Java Performance Tuning contains step-by-step instructions on all aspects of the performance tuning process, right from such early considerations as setting goals, measuring performance, and choosing a compiler. Extensive examples for tuning many parts of an application are described in detail, and any pitfalls are identified. The book also provides performance tuning checklists that enable developers to make their tuning as comprehensive as possible.
Java Performance Tuning is a book to help you "roll up your sleeves" and examine your code in detail in order to apply different tuning techniques to produce the best possible result.
The book shows you how to:
Create and plan a tuning strategy
Avoid performance penalties from inefficient code
Minimize the number of objects a program creates
Improve the behavior of loops and switches
Use threads effectively
Chapter 1 Introduction
Why Is It Slow?
The Tuning Game
System Limitations and What to Tune
A Tuning Strategy
Perceived Performance
Starting to Tune
What to Measure
Don’t Tune What You Don’t Need to Tune
Performance Checklist
Chapter 2 Profiling Tools
Measurements and Timings
Garbage Collection
Method Calls
Object-Creation Profiling
Monitoring Gross Memory Usage
Client/Server Communications
Performance Checklist
Chapter 3 Underlying JDK Improvements
Garbage Collection
Replacing JDK Classes
Faster VMs
Better Optimizing Compilers
Sun’s Compiler and Runtime Optimizations
Compile to Native Machine Code
Native Method Calls
Uncompressed ZIP/JAR Files
Performance Checklist
Chapter 4 Object Creation
Object-Creation Statistics
Object Reuse
Avoiding Garbage Collection
Initialization
Early and Late Initialization
Performance Checklist
Chapter 5 Strings
The Performance Effects of Strings
Compile-Time Versus Runtime Resolution of Strings
Conversions to Strings
Strings Versus char Arrays
String Comparisons and Searches
Sorting Internationalized Strings
Performance Checklist
Chapter 6 Exceptions, Casts, and Variables
Exceptions
Casts
Variables
Method Parameters
Performance Checklist
Chapter 7 Loops and Switches
Java.io.Reader Converter
Exception-Terminated Loops
Switches
Recursion
Recursion and Stacks
Performance Checklist
Chapter 8 I/O, Logging, and Console Output
Replacing System.out
Logging
From Raw I/O to Smokin’ I/O
Serialization
Clustering Objects and Counting I/O Operations
Compression
Performance Checklist
Chapter 9 Sorting
Avoiding Unnecessary Sorting Overhead
An Efficient Sorting Framework
Better Than O(nlogn) Sorting
Performance Checklist
Chapter 10 Threading
User-Interface Thread and Other Threads
Race Conditions
Deadlocks
Synchronization Overheads
Timing Multithreaded Tests
Atomic Access and Assignment
Thread Pools
Load Balancing
Threaded Problem-Solving Strategies
Performance Checklist
Chapter 11 Appropriate Data Structures and Algorithms
Collections
Java 2 Collections
Hashtables and HashMaps
Cached Access
Caching Example I
Caching Example II
Finding the Index for Partially Matched Strings
Search Trees
Performance Checklist
Chapter 12 Distributed Computing
Tools
Message Reduction
Comparing Communication Layers
Caching
Batching I
Application Partitioning
Batching II
Low-Level Communication Optimizations
Distributed Garbage Collection
Databases
Performance Checklist
Chapter 13 When to Optimize
When Not to Optimize
Tuning Class Libraries and Beans
Analysis
Design and Architecture
Tuning After Deployment
More Factors That Affect Performance
Performance Checklist
Chapter 14 Underlying Operating System and Network Improvements
Jack Shirazi is an independent consultant. He was an early adopter of Java, and for the last few years has consulted mainly for the financial sector, focusing on Java performance. Before using Java, Jack spent many years tuning Smalltalk applications. Jack's early career involved research in theoretical physics and bioinformatics. Jack has publications in the field of protein structure and is proud to have contributed to some of the core Perl5 modules.
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Comments about O'Reilly Media Java Performance Tuning:
This book is one of the best-written, most informative Java books I have ever read. It does an excellent job presenting numerous case studies where application performance can be improved with minor and/or major changes. By providing a comparison of the runtime for each different method used, it shows developers how much gain they can expect for their effort. The author also explains in easy to understand English why the changes have the effect they do, making the book more than just a collection of copyable hacks. The one complaint I have about this book is that it does not cover enough topics. I would like to see it cover JDBC in more detail. In addition, comparisons of native compilers (e.g. TowerJ) to the JVMs would be helpful. Perhaps a second edition or a volume two could provide more case studies. However, I think this book is a must have for anyone who is trying to write fast Java programs.
5/17/2001
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Still i am reading this book and it seems to be a very good one and everyone who wants to build a good application in java needs this
