We are pleased to bring you the fifth event of the Docklands.LJC; a group within the main London Java Community that focuses on the developer community in and around Docklands on the second Tuesday of each month. Our speakers this month are Chris Newland and John Oliver. Please note the location for this event as it is in a different location from the previous one. As the spaces are limited places will be preferentially allocated to those who have attended previously and first-timers. The Twitter tag #dljcjug can be used to discuss the event.
Chris Newland - Understanding HotSpot JVM Performance with JITWatch
Java and other languages compile to bytecode which executes on the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Learn how the JVM monitors your program at runtime to make dynamic optimisation decisions.
This talk will introduce the performance-boosting techniques used by the JVM’s Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers such as method inlining, intrinsics, escape analysis, and branch prediction.
We will learn how to instruct the JVM to output its optimisation decisions and introduce the JITWatch tool which can help you understand whether the JVM is able to get the best performance from your code.
The presentation and video recorded from the event are available at InfoQ.
John Oliver - Examining Low Pause Garbage Collection in Java
Low pause garbage collection is all the rage these days, G1 soon to become the default collector and Shenandoah has been accepted for inclusion in Java 9. Almost all of us care about controlling JVM pauses to some degree, but how do you do that? Which collector should you choose? What is happening in the future?
This talk takes a look at both G1 and Shenandoah. G1 has now stabilised and may well be your best option for low pause collection right now. Shenandoah is an exciting prospect that is aiming to support 100GB heaps with pauses of less than 10ms. We will examine how they work, practical experience of their limitations, tuning advice and their performance. We will also look at recent and future changes to garbage collection.
The presentation and video recorded from the event are available at InfoQ.
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Chris Newland has more than 10 years’ experience in building trading platforms and market data systems in Java. He is interested in JVM performance and is the author of the open-source JITWatch tool which he has presented at JavaOne and has written about in Java Magazine.
John Oliver has performed research and development in many languages for 15 years, on various platforms from micro controllers, robots, simulations, desktop applications and web services. He has previously worked on static analysis tools for bug detection. He currently works at jClarity developing performance monitoring tools for the JVM, applying machine learning techniques to solve the problem of detecting and diagnosing performance problems. A number of the tools developed are specifically targeted at monitoring the performance of garbage collection within the JVM.
This event is being hosted by Barclays in London. Sign-up information is available at Meetup.com.