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Java™ Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition
By Jack Shirazi
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: January 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00377-3
Pages	: 588

		Copyright
		Preface
			Contents of This Book
			New in the Second Edition
			Virtual Machine (VM) Versions
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Comments and Questions
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Introduction
			Section 1.1.  Why Is It Slow?
			Section 1.2.  The Tuning Game
			Section 1.3.  System Limitations and What to Tune
			Section 1.4.  A Tuning Strategy
			Section 1.5.  Perceived Performance
			Section 1.6.  Starting to Tune
			Section 1.7.  What to Measure
			Section 1.8.  Don't Tune What You Don't Need to Tune
			Section 1.9.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 2.  Profiling Tools
			Section 2.1.  Measurements and Timings
			Section 2.2.  Garbage Collection
			Section 2.3.  Method Calls
			Section 2.4.  Object-Creation Profiling
			Section 2.5.  Monitoring Gross Memory Usage
			Section 2.6.  Client/Server Communications
			Section 2.7.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 3.  Underlying JDK Improvements
			Section 3.1.  Garbage Collection
			Section 3.2.  Tuning the Heap
			Section 3.3.  Gross Tuning
			Section 3.4.  Fine-Tuning the Heap
			Section 3.5.  Sharing Memory
			Section 3.6.  Replacing JDK Classes
			Section 3.7.  Faster VMs
			Section 3.8.  Better Optimizing Compilers
			Section 3.9.  Sun's Compiler and Runtime Optimizations
			Section 3.10.  Compile to Native Machine Code
			Section 3.11.  Native Method Calls
			Section 3.12.  Uncompressed ZIP/JAR Files
			Section 3.13.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 4.  Object Creation
			Section 4.1.  Object-Creation Statistics
			Section 4.2.  Object Reuse
			Section 4.3.  Reference Objects
			Section 4.4.  Avoiding Garbage Collection
			Section 4.5.  Initialization
			Section 4.6.  Early and Late Initialization
			Section 4.7.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 5.  Strings
			Section 5.1.  The Performance Effects of Strings
			Section 5.2.  Compile-Time Versus Runtime Resolution of Strings
			Section 5.3.  Conversions to Strings
			Section 5.4.  Strings Versus char Arrays
			Section 5.5.  String Comparisons and Searches
			Section 5.6.  Sorting Internationalized Strings
			Section 5.7.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 6.  Exceptions, Assertions, Casts, and Variables
			Section 6.1.  Exceptions
			Section 6.2.  Assertions
			Section 6.3.  Casts
			Section 6.4.  Variables
			Section 6.5.  Method Parameters
			Section 6.6.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 7.  Loops, Switches, and Recursion
			Section 7.1.  Loops
			Section 7.2.  Tuning a Loop
			Section 7.3.  Exception-Terminated Loops
			Section 7.4.  Switches
			Section 7.5.  Recursion
			Section 7.6.  Recursion and Stacks
			Section 7.7.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 8.  I/O, Logging, and Console Output
			Section 8.1.  Replacing System.out
			Section 8.2.  Logging
			Section 8.3.  From Raw I/O to Smokin' I/O
			Section 8.4.  Serialization
			Section 8.5.  Clustering Objects and Counting I/O Operations
			Section 8.6.  Compression
			Section 8.7.  NIO
			Section 8.8.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 9.  Sorting
			Section 9.1.  Avoiding Unnecessary Sorting Overhead
			Section 9.2.  An Efficient Sorting Framework
			Section 9.3.  Better Than O(nlogn) Sorting
			Section 9.4.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 10.  Threading
			Section 10.1.  User-Interface Thread and Other Threads
			Section 10.2.  Race Conditions
			Section 10.3.  Deadlocks
			Section 10.4.  Synchronization Overhead
			Section 10.5.  Timing Multithreaded Tests
			Section 10.6.  Atomic Access and Assignment
			Section 10.7.  Thread Pools
			Section 10.8.  Load Balancing
			Section 10.9.  Threaded Problem-Solving Strategies
			Section 10.10.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 11.  Appropriate Data Structures and Algorithms
			Section 11.1.  Collections
			Section 11.2.  Java 2 Collections
			Section 11.3.  Hashtables and HashMaps
			Section 11.4.  Optimizing Queries
			Section 11.5.  Comparing LinkedLists and ArrayLists
			Section 11.6.  The RandomAccess Interface
			Section 11.7.  Cached Access
			Section 11.8.  Caching Examples
			Section 11.9.  Finding the Index for Partially Matched Strings
			Section 11.10.  Search Trees
			Section 11.11.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 12.  Distributed Computing
			Section 12.1.  Tools
			Section 12.2.  Message Reduction
			Section 12.3.  Comparing Communications Layers
			Section 12.4.  Caching
			Section 12.5.  Batching I
			Section 12.6.  Application Partitioning
			Section 12.7.  Batching II
			Section 12.8.  Low-Level Communication Optimizations
			Section 12.9.  Distributed Garbage Collection
			Section 12.10.  Databases
			Section 12.11.  Web Services
			Section 12.12.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 13.  When to Optimize
			Section 13.1.  When Not to Optimize
			Section 13.2.  Tuning Class Libraries and Beans
			Section 13.3.  Analysis
			Section 13.4.  Design and Architecture
			Section 13.5.  Tuning After Deployment
			Section 13.6.  More Factors That Affect Performance
			Section 13.7.  Performance Planning
			Section 13.8.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 14.  Underlying Operating System and Network Improvements
			Section 14.1.  Hard Disks
			Section 14.2.  CPU
			Section 14.3.  RAM
			Section 14.4.  Network I/O
			Section 14.5.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 15.  J2EE Performance Tuning
			Section 15.1.  Performance Planning
			Section 15.2.  J2EE Monitoring and Profiling Tools
			Section 15.3.  Measurements: What, Where, and How
			Section 15.4.  Load Testing
			Section 15.5.  User Perception
			Section 15.6.  Clustering and Load Balancing
			Section 15.7.  Tuning JMS
			Section 15.8.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 16.  Tuning JDBC
			Section 16.1.  Measuring JDBC Performance
			Section 16.2.  Tuning JDBC
			Section 16.3.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 17.  Tuning Servlets and JSPs
			Section 17.1.  Don't Use SingleThreadModel
			Section 17.2.  Efficient Page Creation and Output
			Section 17.3.  Body Tags
			Section 17.4.  Cache Tags
			Section 17.5.  HttpSession
			Section 17.6.  Compression
			Section 17.7.  More Performance Tips
			Section 17.8.  Case Study: Ace's Hardware SPECmine Tool
			Section 17.9.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 18.  Tuning EJBs
			Section 18.1.  Primary Design Guidelines
			Section 18.2.  Performance-Optimizing Design Patterns
			Section 18.3.  The Application Server
			Section 18.4.  More Suggestions for Tuning EJBs
			Section 18.5.  Case Study: The Pet Store
			Section 18.6.  Case Study: Elite.com
			Section 18.7.  Performance Checklist
		Chapter 19.  Further Resources
			Section 19.1.  The Primary Resource
			Section 19.2.  Books
			Section 19.3.  Magazines
			Section 19.4.  URLs
			Section 19.5.  Profilers
			Section 19.6.  Optimizers
		Colophon
		Index