Java Performance Tuning
Java Performance Tuning, Second Edition By Jack Shirazi
January 2003
Pages: 588

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. Why Is It Slow?

    2. The Tuning Game

    3. System Limitations and What to Tune

    4. A Tuning Strategy

    5. Perceived Performance

    6. Starting to Tune

    7. What to Measure

    8. Don't Tune What You Don't Need to Tune

    9. Performance Checklist

  2. Chapter 2 Profiling Tools

    1. Measurements and Timings

    2. Garbage Collection

    3. Method Calls

    4. Object-Creation Profiling

    5. Monitoring Gross Memory Usage

    6. Client/Server Communications

    7. Performance Checklist

  3. Chapter 3 Underlying JDK Improvements

    1. Garbage Collection

    2. Tuning the Heap

    3. Gross Tuning

    4. Fine-Tuning the Heap

    5. Sharing Memory

    6. Replacing JDK Classes

    7. Faster VMs

    8. Better Optimizing Compilers

    9. Sun's Compiler and Runtime Optimizations

    10. Compile to Native Machine Code

    11. Native Method Calls

    12. Uncompressed ZIP/JAR Files

    13. Performance Checklist

  4. Chapter 4 Object Creation

    1. Object-Creation Statistics

    2. Object Reuse

    3. Reference Objects

    4. Avoiding Garbage Collection

    5. Initialization

    6. Early and Late Initialization

    7. Performance Checklist

  5. Chapter 5 Strings

    1. The Performance Effects of Strings

    2. Compile-Time Versus Runtime Resolution of Strings

    3. Conversions to Strings

    4. Strings Versus char Arrays

    5. String Comparisons and Searches

    6. Sorting Internationalized Strings

    7. Performance Checklist

  6. Chapter 6 Exceptions, Assertions, Casts, and Variables

    1. Exceptions

    2. Assertions

    3. Casts

    4. Variables

    5. Method Parameters

    6. Performance Checklist

  7. Chapter 7 Loops, Switches, and Recursion

    1. Loops

    2. Tuning a Loop

    3. Exception-Terminated Loops

    4. Switches

    5. Recursion

    6. Recursion and Stacks

    7. Performance Checklist

  8. Chapter 8 I/O, Logging, and Console Output

    1. Replacing System.out

    2. Logging

    3. From Raw I/O to Smokin' I/O

    4. Serialization

    5. Clustering Objects and Counting I/O Operations

    6. Compression

    7. NIO

    8. Performance Checklist

  9. Chapter 9 Sorting

    1. Avoiding Unnecessary Sorting Overhead

    2. An Efficient Sorting Framework

    3. Better Than O(nlogn) Sorting

    4. Performance Checklist

  10. Chapter 10 Threading

    1. User-Interface Thread and Other Threads

    2. Race Conditions

    3. Deadlocks

    4. Synchronization Overhead

    5. Timing Multithreaded Tests

    6. Atomic Access and Assignment

    7. Thread Pools

    8. Load Balancing

    9. Threaded Problem-Solving Strategies

    10. Performance Checklist

  11. Chapter 11 Appropriate Data Structures and Algorithms

    1. Collections

    2. Java 2 Collections

    3. Hashtables and HashMaps

    4. Optimizing Queries

    5. Comparing LinkedLists and ArrayLists

    6. The RandomAccess Interface

    7. Cached Access

    8. Caching Examples

    9. Finding the Index for Partially Matched Strings

    10. Search Trees

    11. Performance Checklist

  12. Chapter 12 Distributed Computing

    1. Tools

    2. Message Reduction

    3. Comparing Communications Layers

    4. Caching

    5. Batching I

    6. Application Partitioning

    7. Batching II

    8. Low-Level Communication Optimizations

    9. Distributed Garbage Collection

    10. Databases

    11. Web Services

    12. Performance Checklist

  13. Chapter 13 When to Optimize

    1. When Not to Optimize

    2. Tuning Class Libraries and Beans

    3. Analysis

    4. Design and Architecture

    5. Tuning After Deployment

    6. More Factors That Affect Performance

    7. Performance Planning

    8. Performance Checklist

  14. Chapter 14 Underlying Operating System and Network Improvements

    1. Hard Disks

    2. CPU

    3. RAM

    4. Network I/O

    5. Performance Checklist

  15. Chapter 15 J2EE Performance Tuning

    1. Performance Planning

    2. J2EE Monitoring and Profiling Tools

    3. Measurements: What, Where, and How

    4. Load Testing

    5. User Perception

    6. Clustering and Load Balancing

    7. Tuning JMS

    8. Performance Checklist

  16. Chapter 16 Tuning JDBC

    1. Measuring JDBC Performance

    2. Tuning JDBC

    3. Performance Checklist

  17. Chapter 17 Tuning Servlets and JSPs

    1. Don't Use SingleThreadModel

    2. Efficient Page Creation and Output

    3. Body Tags

    4. Cache Tags

    5. HttpSession

    6. Compression

    7. More Performance Tips

    8. Case Study: Ace's Hardware SPECmine Tool

    9. Performance Checklist

  18. Chapter 18 Tuning EJBs

    1. Primary Design Guidelines

    2. Performance-Optimizing Design Patterns

    3. The Application Server

    4. More Suggestions for Tuning EJBs

    5. Case Study: The Pet Store

    6. Case Study: Elite.com

    7. Performance Checklist

  19. Chapter 19 Further Resources

    1. The Primary Resource

    2. Books

    3. Magazines

    4. URLs

    5. Profilers

    6. Optimizers

  1. Colophon

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