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The programming community seems to believe that choosing Java as a language inevitably means poor performance. In reality, as you might expect, the speed of a Java application depends very much on the quality of the code. Indeed, improvements in performance from good coding can far outweigh those achieved from using a faster virtual machine.
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The benchmarks were performed using Doug Bell’s benchmark utility, available from http://www.2nu.com/Doug/Benchmark/Benchmark.html
A useful source of information on Java optimization can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼j ch/j ava/
Source code for (among other things) FastVector, FastStringBuf f er and Buf f eredRandomAccessFile are available at http://www.aber.ac.uk/∼agm/Java.html
The Win95 Performance pack JIT is available from Sun at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/
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Aho A.V. and Ullman J.D. Principles of Compiler Design. Addison-Wesley, Reading MA.
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Hunt, J.E., McManus, A.G. (1998). Optimizing for Speed. In: Key Java. Practitioner Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0607-4_15
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