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Inspired by Actual Events
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Inspired by Actual Events is a personal blog at marxsoftware.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Definitive set of HotSpot performance command-line options”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's Java posts as references on JVM tuning, Java object memory size, and Clojure resources. One commenter calls the linked posts heavily used bookmarks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations My observations and thoughts concerning software development (general development, Java, JavaFX, Groovy, Flex, ...). Select posts from this blog are syndicated on DZone and
Most-linked posts?
- Definitive set of HotSpot performance command-line options2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-27
- Significant Software Development Developments of 20172 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-01
What Hacker News says?
Well, to not answer your question: Hotspot performance tuning is a fine art, and benchmarking is a somewhat separate fine art, people will sample their data carefully, do a lot fo runs, warming up properly, using different GC's, tuning heap,GC generations, MaxInlineSize, maybe 32-bit (-server). I remember reading linux package managers often don't include -client in the 64-bit install. JDK7 maybe faster, many people…
Comment linking /2011/10/javaone-2011-definitive-set-of-hotspot.html
on “Practical Garbage Collection - Part 1: Introduction”Submitted Java May Use UTF-8 as Its Default Charset as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThese are heavily used bookmarks http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2009/09/tuning-jvm-for-unu... http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-defini... http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-every-... http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2012/twitter_jvm_tuning.html
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on “Java Tuning in a nutshell”Submitted Will StackOverflow Documentation Realize Its Lofty Goal? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThere's a very finite amount of stuff you need to pick up and this is common to JRuby, groovy, scala too. Remember you can ask questions on Stackoverflow, IRC (freenode #clojure, google group, folks are supportive. Re: JVM for non-java programmers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4741626/what-parts-of-the... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4230746/does-being-a-comp... http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/search/la…
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on “Clojure 2011 Year in Review”Submitted Java : One year with Oracle review as a story · 14 points
HN discussionfrom 2008. slide 25: experiments on a sampling of different JVMs. More recent : http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-getting-size-of... http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-how-much-memory... http://kohlerm.blogspot.com/2008/10/knowledge-about-much-mem... http://kohlerm.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-really-measure-me... http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/12/estimating-java-obj... (i have zillions bo…
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on “Building Memory-efficient Java Applications”Submitted Using Google's Protocol Buffers with Java as a story · 12 points
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