(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012) | |
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns | |
Branch mispredict 5 ns | |
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache | |
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns | |
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache | |
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us | |
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us | |
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD |
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs
I was talking to a coworker recently about general techniques that almost always form the core of any effort to write very fast, down-to-the-metal hot path code on the JVM, and they pointed out that there really isn't a particularly good place to go for this information. It occurred to me that, really, I had more or less picked up all of it by word of mouth and experience, and there just aren't any good reference sources on the topic. So… here's my word of mouth.
This is by no means a comprehensive gist. It's also important to understand that the techniques that I outline in here are not 100% absolute either. Performance on the JVM is an incredibly complicated subject, and while there are rules that almost always hold true, the "almost" remains very salient. Also, for many or even most applications, there will be other techniques that I'm not mentioning which will have a greater impact. JMH, Java Flight Recorder, and a good profiler are your very best friend! Mea
/* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.Dict | |
This file remaps the key bindings of a single user on Mac OS X 10.5 to more | |
closely match default behavior on Windows systems. This makes the Command key | |
behave like Windows Control key. To use Control instead of Command, either swap | |
Control and Command in Apple->System Preferences->Keyboard->Modifier Keys... | |
or replace @ with ^ in this file. | |
Here is a rough cheatsheet for syntax. | |
Key Modifiers |
#!/bin/bash | |
# bash generate random alphanumeric string | |
# | |
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and | |
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1) | |
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only) | |
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1 |