The accepted wisdom has it that if you're building a high speed trading system you probably want to use C++ instead of Java: it's closer to the metal and is therefore faster (lower latency). However, some leading figures in the industry beg to disagree. ... (more…)

The Java Virtual Machine needs memory to breathe – sometimes more than we like. One of its hungrier subsystems can be the Metaspace, the part of the JVM holding class metadata. With JEP 387, SAP contributed... (more…)

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Welcome back to the August update of Java on Visual Studio Code. In this update, we will focus on performance improvements and project management. On to the update. Performance improvements IntelliSense (a.k.a. Code Complete) IntelliSense is one of the mo... (more…)