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When optimizing Java code, programmers naturally focus on improving performance. After all, the most common criticism levelled at Java is its relative lack of speed. There is, however, another side to optimization — that of optimizing for size (which is often in direct competition with performance). Optimizing for size manifests itself in two (related) forms: reducing the size of Java classes, and reducing the amount of memory used at runtime.
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Further Reading
Howard R. (1997) StoreTable: a Java class for simple object persistence. Java Report; 2(5): 45.
Online References
The Java obfuscator used was Jobe, available from http://www.primenet.com/∼ej/index.html
A useful source of information on Java optimization can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼jch/java/
The Java Virtual Machine Specification is available from Sun at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/index.html
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Hunt, J.E., McManus, A.G. (1998). Optimizing for Memory. In: Key Java. Practitioner Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0607-4_16
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