Java Performance Tuning By Jack Shirazi
September 2000
Pages: 436

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The image on the cover of Java Performance Tuning is a stopwatch. Unlike traditional clocks, which track the continuation of time through the minutes and hours of a day, the stopwatch measures elapsed time over short intervals by allowing the user to start and stop it. This is particularly suited to sports: stopwatches (also known as chronographs) were common at English horse races as early as the mid-seventeenth century. However, a stopwatch like the one pictured on the cover is prone to human error: its exactness is limited by the reaction times of the person holding it. Although more precise photographic-electric timers appeared as early as 1892 and were used experimentally in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, the Olympics continued to rely on handheld stopwatches until 1960 in Rome, when the transition was officially made to electric timers. Emily Quill was the production editor and proofreader for Java Performance Tuning. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the copyeditor for the book. Jane Ellin and Nancy Kotary performed quality control reviews. Nancy Williams provided production assistance. Nancy Crumpton wrote the index. This colophon was written by Emily Quill.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The image of the stopwatch is from the Stock Options photo collection. It was manipulated in Adobe Photoshop by Michael Snow. The cover layout was produced by Emma Colby using QuarkXPress 4.1, the Bodoni Black font from URW Software, and BT Bodoni Bold Italic from Bitstream. Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Nancy Priest.

Text was produced in FrameMaker 5.5.6 using a template implemented by Mike Sierra. The heading font is Bodoni BT; the text font is New Baskerville. Illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5 by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter.

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