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Microbenchmarking and you
Crossposted from the Transylvania JUG website. Microbenchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance characteristics (like CPU, memory or I/O) of a small piece of code to determine which would be better suited for a particular scenario. If I could offer but one advice on this, it would be this: don’t. It is too easy…
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Is Java slower than C? (and does it matter?)
Via daniel’s blog (the creator of curl) I arrived to this page: why the Java implementation (JGit) doesn’t run nearly as fast as the C implementation. The short version of it is: even after many tunings JGit is twice as slow as the C implementation. One of the problems which got my attention, was the…