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Copyright © 2008 - 2009 Lars Vogel
12.12.2010
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| Revision 0.1 | 28.12.2008 | Lars Vogel |
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| Revision 0.2 -0.8 | 12.01.2009 - 12.12.2010 | Lars Vogel |
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Abstract
This article will be a collection of Java performance measurement pointer.
It describes how memory works in general and how Java use the heap and the stack. The article describes how to set the available memory for Java. It discusses then how to get the runtime and the memory consumption of a Java application.
Table of Contents
Important influence factors to the performance of a Java program can be separated into two main parts:
Memory Consumption of the Java program
Total runtime of a program
In case the program is to some case a program which interacts with others also the response time is a very important fact of the performance of a program.
This article does not cover concurrency. If you want to read about concurrency / multithreading please see Concurrency / Multithreading in Java