Mechanical Sympathy
Hardware and software working together in harmony
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Java Garbage Collection Distilled
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Serial, Parallel, Concurrent, CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Perm Gen, Eden, Tenured, Survivor Spaces, Safepoints, and the hundreds ...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
Printing Generated Assembly Code From The Hotspot JIT Compiler
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Sometimes when profiling a Java application it is necessary to understand the assembly code generated by the Hotspot JIT compiler. This can...
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Thursday, 14 February 2013
CPU Cache Flushing Fallacy
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Even from highly experienced technologists I often hear talk about how certain operations cause a CPU cache to "flush". This see...
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Friday, 25 January 2013
Further Adventures With CAS Instructions And Micro Benchmarking
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In a previous article I reported what appeared to be a performance issue with CAS/LOCK instructions on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture...
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Mechanical Sympathy Discussion Group
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Lately a number of people have suggested I start a discussion group on the subject of mechanical sympathy, so I've taken the plunge and...
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Compact Off-Heap Structures/Tuples In Java
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In my last post I detailed the implications of the access patterns your code takes to main memory. Since then I've had a lot of quest...
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