Interview with AMD Java Labs

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Azeem Jiva, Ben Pollan and Gary Frost join us from the Java labs at AMD to talk about JVM performance, multiple cores, developer tools and more.
* AMD Java Labs + http://developer.amd.com + http://developer.amd.com/java

• AMD Java Developer Blogs

• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/categories.cfm?catid=313&flcache=9340274&entercat=y

• java.util.concurrent - the reference

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html

• Java Concurrency in Practice - makes it readable

• http://www.javaconcurrencyinpractice.com/

• Fork/Join (JSR 166y) - Parallel Arrays

• http://artisans-serverintellect-com.si-eioswww6.com/default.asp?W9

• Tail Recursion

• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/717

• CUDA - floating point operations using GPUs

• http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

• http://javagl.de/jcuda/jcublas/JCublas.html

• AMD and OpenJDK

• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/blogpost.cfm?threadid=101815&catid=313

• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/blogpost.cfm?threadid=92481&catid=313

• JRockit

• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html

• JVMTI - JVM Tool Interface

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jvmti/

• Java Hotspot

• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/

• Compressed Pointers / Compressed Oops

• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.hotspot.compiler.devel/875

• http://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/ecoop07.pdf

• Tuning Garbage Collection

• http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html

• AMD Java Tools

• http://developer.amd.com/cpu/CodeAnalyst/codeanalystwindows/codesleuth/Pages/default.aspx

• http://developer.amd.com/cpu/CodeAnalyst/Pages/default.aspx

• Other performance tools

• HProf

• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/HPROF.html

• JFluid

• http://profiler.netbeans.org/jfluid.html
• http://java.sys-con.com/node/45081

• http://profiler.netbeans.org/

• OProfile

• http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/

• Eclipse Memory Analyzer

• http://www.eclipse.org/mat/

• Escape Analysis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis

• Scala, Clojure

• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• http://clojure.org/

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