Java Optimization

What's New

• Additional resources, including new Java benchmarking pages.

• How to determine how much memory your code uses.

• The perils of timing Java code.

• Microbenchmark results for Netscape 3.0b5, which has a JIT compiler.
• Linpack results for 3.0b5 show a 10x speedup over the JDK interpreter.

• Why array initialization requires so much space.

• Paul Santa Maria shows the steps taken to benchmark and optimize a Mandelbrot Set program.

• Added a link to a tutorial on improving animation speed.
• A new Java profile viewer is available as part of SourceCraft's Java IDE.

• New microbenchmark results for the Asymetrix SuperCede JIT plug-in for Netscape. This is clearly beta software (no GC, JDK 1.0 only, not robust), but it has very good performance.

• I've added a no frames page for the purists.
• If you're interested in more than microbenchmarks, try the CaffeineMark benchmark from Pendragon Software.
• How to zip your application's class files to reduce loading time.

• Frames! Let me know what you think of the change.

• Updated microbenchmark results for JDK 1.0.2 and Kaffe 0.3.

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• The Java Performance Report from Pendragon Software is recommended reading.