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Interesting Links, 28 Mar 2016

The Apache Foundation has announced the release of PDFBox 2.0. Apache PDFBox allows for the “creation of new PDF documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.” TechEmpower‘s Web Framework Benchmarks features Rapidoid as the fastest web framework – and Rapidoid is written in Java. It’s worth noting that the benchmark, being a benchmark, isn’t exactly “real world” – and Rapidoid doesn’t win every category...

Mar 28, 2016 — 2 minute(s) read

#angularjs #benchmark #cdi #distributed-programming #docker #map #markov-chains #pdf #semweb #web-framework

Watching HotSpot in action, deductively

Today someone asked about the size of java source files, because they wanted to know if they could unroll a loop without making javac throw up, I think. It’s an interesting question, but the main thing that caught the channel’s attention was the claim that an unrolled loop was orders of magnitude faster than the loop itself, such that the unrolled loop took 0.1 millisecond and the normal loop took 0.5...

Sep 24, 2014 — 6 minute(s) read

#benchmark #hotspot #optimization