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Java 9 High Performance

You're reading from   Java 9 High Performance Practical techniques and best practices for optimizing Java applications through concurrency, reactive programming, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120785
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nick Samoylov Nick Samoylov
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Mayur Ramgir Mayur Ramgir
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1. Learning Java 9 Underlying Performance Improvements 2. Identifying Performance Bottlenecks FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning How to Troubleshoot Code 4. Learning How to Use Profiling Tools 5. Understanding Garbage Collection and Making Use of It 6. Optimizing Code with Microbenchmarking 7. Speeding Up JSON Generation 8. Tools for Higher Productivity and Faster Application 9. Multithreading and Reactive Programming 10. Microservices 11. Making Use of New APIs to Improve Your Code

GC in Java

Java focuses greatly on using automatic memory allocation systems, which means that it employs an automatic garbage collector. The GC in Java recovers the memory after the runtime evaluates that certain objects are no longer in computational use. It uses a method of reference, such as the one that may be employed in a manual scheme.

Once all the references to an object are eliminated, the memory location is marked for automatic freeing by the garbage collector. A memory leak occurs when inefficient code by a programmer references an object that is actually not required. A null pointer exception method is usually employed in Java for identifying non-existent objects.

The main idea behind the use of different GC methods in Java is to take away the burden of memory management from the programmers. In some languages, objects are allocated from heaps and deallocated from...

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