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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

Web
sites

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.

Java
specific books

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.

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