Skip to Main Content
Java™ Performance and Scalability, Volume 1: Server-Side Programming Techniques
book

Java™ Performance and Scalability, Volume 1: Server-Side Programming Techniques

by Dov Bulka
June 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
5h 54m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Java™ Performance and Scalability, Volume 1: Server-Side Programming Techniques

Chapter 2. Pure Overhead

Performance optimization often has to strike a delicate balance between competing forces. This is perhaps why it is referred to as optimization as opposed to performance maximization. Performance optimization often requires the sacrifice of some other software goal. Important goals such as flexibility, maintainability, cost, and reuse must often give way to the demand for performance. It is unusual when a performance fix, in an otherwise high-quality piece of code, does not compromise any other software development goals. Sometimes we are fortunate when the elimination of simple coding mistakes results in higher performance without any sacrifice. The optimizations we discuss in this chapter fall into this category. They ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Building Scalable and High-Performance Java™ Web Applications Using J2EE™ Technology

Building Scalable and High-Performance Java™ Web Applications Using J2EE™ Technology

Greg Barish

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0201704293Purchase book