Performance
tools
[1]
MicroBenchmark running on Pentium Pro (200Mh), Netscape 3.0, JDK 1.1.4 (see
reference [5] below).
[2]
Sun’s Java document page on the JDK Java interpreter
http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/tools/win32/java.html
[3]
Vladimir Bulatov’s
HyperProf
http://www.physics.orst.edu/~bulatov/HyperProf
[4]
Greg White’s
ProfileViewer
http://www.inetmi.com/~gwhi/ProfileViewer/ProfileViewer.html
Web
sites
[5]
The premiere online references for optimizing Java code are Jonathan
Hardwick’s Java Optimization
site
at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/optimization.html
,
“Tools for Optimizing Java” at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/tools.html
,
and “Java Microbenchmarks” (with a quick 45 second measurement
benchmark) at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/benchmarks.html.
Articles
[6]
Make
Java fast: Optimize! How to get the greatest performance out of your code
through low-level optimizations in Java
by
Doug
Bell
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1997/jw-04-optimize.html
,
complete with an extensive annotated measurement Benchmark applet.
[7]
Java
Optimization Resources
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/resources.html
[8]
Optimizing
Java for Speed
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/speed.html
[9]
An
Empirical Study of FORTRAN Programs
by Donald Knuth, 1971, Software – Practice and Experience, Volume 1 p.
105-33.
[10]
Building
High-Performance Applications and Servers in Java: An Experiential Study
,
by Jimmy Nguyen, Michael Fraenkel, Richard Redpath, Binh Q. Nguyen, and Sandeep
K. Singhal; IBM Software Solutions, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
http://www.ibm.com/java/education/javahipr.html.
Java
specific books
[11]
Advanced
Java, Idioms, Pitfalls, Styles, and Programming Tips
,
by Chris
Laffra,
Prentice Hall, 1997. (Java 1.0) Chapter Sections 11-20.
General
books
[12]
Data
Structures and C Programs
by Christopher J. Van Wyk, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
[13]
Writing
Efficient Programs
by
Jon Bentley, Prentice Hall, 1982, especially p. 110 and p. 145-151.
[14]
More
Programming Pearls
by Jon Bentley. Association for Computing Machinery, February 1988.
[15]
Programming
Pearls
by Jon Bentley, Addison-Wesley 1989. Part II addresses generic performance
enhancements.
[16]
Code
Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
by
Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press 1993, Chapter 9.
[17]
Object-Oriented
System Development
by Champeaux, Lea, and Faure, Chapter 25.
[18]
The
Art of Programming
by Donald Knuth, Volume 1
Fundamental
Algorithms
3rd
Edition, 1997; Volume 2,
Seminumerical
Algorithms
3
rd
Edition; Volume 3
Sorting
and Searching
2
nd
Edition, Addison-Wesley. The definitive encyclopedia of algorithms.
[19]
Algorithms
in C: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching
by Robert Sedgewick, 3
rd
Edition, Addison-Wesley 1997. The author is an apprentice of Knuth’s.
This is one of seven editions devoted to several languages and contains timely,
somewhat simpler treatments of algorithms.
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