Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation Georges et al., OOPSLA’07 This paper won the 10-year most influential paper award at OOPSLA this year. Many of the papers we look at on this blog … (more…)

These are the final results of the Public Review Ballot for JSR #376. (more…)

I just had an interview, and I was asked to create a memory leak with Java. (more…)

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?Epictetus Bill Shannon passed away a few days ago after a long, valiant battle with cancer. The … (more…)

Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the sep... (more…)