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JVM Mechanics – A Peek Under the Hood
Gil Tene discusses JVM observation-based runtime optimizations, ordering and memory model rules, basics GC functions, memory management, and JVM mechanics.
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Visualizing Java Garbage Collection
Ben Evans discusses garbage collection in Java along with some tooling for understanding and visualizing how it works.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.
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Lock-Free Algorithms For Ultimate Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the need to measure what’s going on at the hardware level in order to be able to create high performing lock-free algorithms.
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Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson explores performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails
Gareth Rushgrove overviews Ruby on Rails and Django: object caches, fragment and HTTP caching, asset compilation, profiling, log file measurement and framework hooks for instrumentation.
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ClojureScript - Better Semantics at Low Low Prices!
David Nolen unveils optimization techniques behind ClojureScript: code size, expression-oriented semantics, numerics, operations on JS primitive types, persistent data structures, etc.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.
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Going for Speed: Testing Against Performance Expectations
Jay Harris offers tips on using unit testing to improve the performance of applications.
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High Performance Mobile
Steve Souders discusses the importance of mobile performance, providing advice on creating more responsive mobile apps, and outlining the latest developments in analyzing mobile performance.
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