June 2000
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
5h 54m
English
We have already touched upon the 80–20 principle in the context of software design and implementation (Optimization 15). The 80–20 principle has also played a role in the selection of optimizations covered earlier in this book. Our discussion is by no means a comprehensive account of all Java performance issues. It is simply an attempt to capture the dominant optimization opportunities that you are likely to encounter in a random Java application. To substantiate this claim, I thought it would be a good exercise to download a random Java application from the Internet and try to construct a mapping from our optimizations to their manifestations in this Java code. I also wanted to apply our optimizations to semi-real ...