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Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition

You're reading from   Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition Become an expert at writing fast and high performant code in Clojure 1.7.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283642
Length 198 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shantanu Kumar Shantanu Kumar
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Preface 1. Performance by Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Clojure Abstractions 3. Leaning on Java 4. Host Performance 5. Concurrency 6. Measuring Performance 7. Performance Optimization 8. Application Performance Index

Low-level concurrency

Concurrency cannot be achieved without explicit hardware support. We discussed about SMT and the multi-core processors in the previous chapters. Recall that every processor core has its own L1 cache, and several cores share the L2 cache. The shared L2 cache provides a fast mechanism to the processor cores to coordinate their cache access, eliminating the comparatively expensive memory access. Additionally, a processor buffers the writes to memory into something known as a dirty write-buffer. This helps the processor to issue a batch of memory update requests, reorder the instructions, and determine the final value to write to memory, known as write absorption.

Hardware memory barrier (fence) instructions

Memory access reordering is great for a sequential (single-threaded) program performance, but it is hazardous for the concurrent programs where the order of memory access in one thread may disrupt the expectations in another thread. The processor needs the means of...

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