Java Performance Tuning

/** The more we abstract, the more a performance hit we get.  Paraphrasing Mr Donald Knuth, having an efficient and elegant solution, is an oxymoronic claim */

So is it all lost?  I love code elegance, I find it exciting; and yes, I know that is a very geeky thing to say.  Even though Java is potentially one of the most elegant languages around nowadays, the myriad of frameworks and modular approaches available lead to levels of abstraction that definitely have a performance hit on the vm.

But not all is lost, Kirk Pepperdine, who as most Java people know, is a top Java Champion, wrote an interesting article about this on sun.com {

I invite you all to hop over and have a look.  The tips in here are not totally specific to Java, so you can learn a lot from this.

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/community/pepperdine_qa.html

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