Java Performance
The Definitive Guide
by Scott Oaks · first published 2014
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Thanks for writing this, I agree especially with the first point. Scott Oaks's "Java Performance" [1] does a good job of explaining the different GC's available in the JVM. He also goes into the many, many GC-related JVM settings you can tune. However, as he acknowledges, the default settings are…
on “Java garbage collection can be really slow” ↗Java Performance: The Definitive Guide, by Scott Oaks is great. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/java-performance-the/97...
on “Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?” ↗Do you have any good link/books for learning about JVM? I found that there are tons of beginner java, but nothing on JVM. I've only found by Scott Oaks Java Performance, which gives some interesting knowledge about JVM but it's a secondary focus.
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