About the Authors

Charlie Hunt (Chicago, IL) is currently a JVM Engineer at Oracle leading a variety of Java SE and HotSpot VM projects whose primary focus is reducing memory footprint while maintaining throughput and latency. He is also the lead author of Java™ Performance (Addison-Wesley, 2012). He is a regular presenter at the JavaOne Conference where he has been recognized as a Java Rock Star. He has also been a speaker at other well-known conferences, including QCon, Velocity, GoTo, and Dreamforce. Prior to leading a variety of Java SE and HotSpot VM projects for Oracle, Charlie worked in several different performance positions, including Performance Engineering Architect at Salesforce.com and HotSpot VM Performance Architect at Oracle and ...

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