One of the latest fashions in the Java world is GraalVM. For someone who has been around, I still remember the "Write once, run anywhere" slogan of Java virtual machine. Apparently, the wheel has spun back, now people want to write native code in Java, wh... (more…)

Java.util package provides a Hashtable class which implements hash table and maps keys to value. Any non-null object can be used as a key or as a value. To successfully store and retrieve objects from a hashtable, the objects used as keys must implement t... (more…)

Languages running on virtual machines were developed to make deployment on any platform easy. But this ability no longer matters when your… (more…)

Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation Georges et al., OOPSLA’07 This paper won the 10-year most influential paper award at OOPSLA this year. Many of the papers we look at on this blog … (more…)

RefDiff - A tool to compare different versions of Java source code to find refactoring changes between them... (more…)