Articles having tag: PERFORMANCE

Performance analysis for String and StringBuilder

SQL Server Prefetch and Query Performance

Prefetching can make a surprising difference to SQL Server query execution times where there is a high incidence of waiting for disk i/o operations, but the benefits come at a cost. Mostly, the Query Optimizer gets it right, but occasionally there are queries...

CacheAdapter 2.5–Memcached revised

By Glav

Note: For more information around the CacheAdapter, see my previous postshere,here,hereandhereYou may have noticed a number of updates to theCacheAdapterpackage on nuget as of late. These are all related to performance and stability improvements for thememcachedcomponent...

Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13

By Lawrence Mandel

Back in the fall of 2011, we took a targeted look at Firefox responsiveness issues. We identified a number of short term projects that together could achieve significant responsiveness improvements in day-to-day Firefox usage. Project Snappy kicked off at the...

Poll Result: Expected Impact of Lambda Expressions (Closures) on Programming with Java 8

By editor

| 0 Brian Goetz recently provided new details on the status ofJSR 335in his OpenJDK documentState of the Lambda: Libraries Edition.Project Lambdais a fundamentally important enhancement to Java 8. And, based on the response of developers in ourrecent pollasking...

Meet The MySQL Experts Podcast: MySQL Thread Pool

By Bertrand Matthelié

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Multithread Programming Versus Parallel Programming; or, What's Wrong with Java Threads?

By editor

| 0 A few nights ago, I was browsing the chapters about concurrent programming in Herbert Schildt's excellentJava: The Complete Reference, 8th Edition, and I was struck by the evolution of concurrency in Java over the years, from threads, through the richness...

Easy-Cassandra 1.0.9: With annotations jpa and JPQL

By otaviojava

| 0Release the newest version of the framework to persist objects in Apache Cassandra in easy way. Among improvement is the JPA annotations, also JPQL. JCassandra jCassandra=persistence.createJCassandra("select * from Person");\xa0List<Person>...

Diagnosing applications using Performance Counters

By Sebastian Solnica

Performance counters are used to provide information how well the operating system or an application, service, or driver is performing.

Java 7 Fork/Join Framework Initial Look, and Resources

By editor

| 0 In some earlier posts, I've talked aboutJava threads,Java Thread Overhead, andAmdahl's Law and Parallel Processing Speed-Up. My next investigation in this series is Java 7's newFork/Join Framework. I plan to spend quite a lot of time in this particular...