I’ve been on a bit of a frustration-driven quest to solve a problem I frequently encounter working on the search engine, that is, reading data from disk. You’d think this would be a pretty basic thing, but doing this in a way that is half-way performant i... (more…)

Prime MVC is a high performance Model View Controller framework built in Java. - prime-framework/prime-mvc... (more…)

How I customized the CLOS Meta-Object Protocol in OpenLDK to replace PCL’s multi-dispatch machinery with a fast hash-table cache, taking Clojure bootstrap from 2h45m to 2 minutes 40 seconds. (more…)

Java 9 brings more than just modules: better performance, less momory consumption, G1 as the default GC, HTML5 Javadoc ... a lot goes on inside Java 9. (more…)

When programming in C, one has to allocate and de-allocate memory by hand. It is an error prone process. In contrast, newer languages like Java often manage their memory automatically. Java relies on garbage collection. In effect, memory is allocated as n... (more…)