Moving!!!

I decided to move my blog to blogger.com! So this is kind of a fresh start, since my old posts are going to reside at my own webspace at http://archives.linsin.de.

At the moment I'm still thinking about how to keep all the links to my old blog online, while using http://blog.linsin.de to reach this blog. If someone wants to check out my suggest plug-in at http://blog.linsin.de/archives...version-06/ he still should be redirected to http://archives.linsin.de/archives....version-06/. If someone wants to check out http://blog.linsin.de he should be redirected to http://dlinsin.blogspot.com. Well I'll figure it out, in the mean time you can reach my old blog at http://blog.linsin.de.

I moved to blogger.com to escape hosting my own blog software. I hate updating and patching my blog, since it's a tedious job! I hope blogger.com will save me the trouble.

Java performance

The Java™ language is the target of a lot of abuse for performance. And while some of it may well be deserved, a tour of message board and newsgroup postings on the subject shows that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about how a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) actually works. In this month's Java theory and practice, Brian Goetz pokes some holes in the oft-repeated performance myth of slow allocation in JVMs.

rating comment: Very interesting article, giving some insight on how a JVM handles garbage collection and memory allocation. It has been some time since I looked into data structures like heap and stack so this article was a good practise to revise that knowledge.

Approaches to Performance Testing

Performance testing is a tricky business, and as Matt Maccaux explains, very much dependent on the type of results you want to achieve. Learn more about benchmarking, capacity planning, soak tests, and peak-rest tests.