Tales from a Trading Desk

Amongst others (Azul et al), Mechanical Sympathy provides some interesting reading in the low latency Java space.

• The Java HotSpot Performance Engine: On-Stack Replacement Example – Provides a view on the 10k, 14k counters used by OSR
• Efficient On-Stack Replacement for Aggressive Specialization of Java Programs
• What the heck is OSR and why is it Bad (or Good)?
• A short conversation on Biased Locking
• Java Lock Implementations
• Inverted schedctl usage in the JVM
• atomic fetch-and-add vs compare-and-swap
• Biased Locking, OSR, and Benchmarking Fun
• Final Fields, Part 2

~ by mdavey on November 28, 2011.

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