Eye on Java performance Improvements

An anonymous reader writes "Performance. It's the one aspect of the Java platform that continually takes abuse. But the overwhelming success of the platform on other fronts makes performance issues worth serious investigation. In this article, Intrepid optimizers Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine, Director and CTO of JavaPerformanceTuning.com, look at compilation speed, exceptions, and heap size tuning."

Comments

Re:Slow is relative

[Dan Ost]

Why?

Because if performance is an issue, you find your bottleneck and replace the
bottleneck Python code with a C module.

Suddenly your Python "Script" runs 99% as fast as if you'd written it in
C in the first place.

That's why nobody ever dogs on Python for being slow: Python makes it simple
to get the performance you'd expect from C while only requiring a minimal
amount of actual C code to be written.