RSS Digest: Week Ending 27-Jan-2012
Java
Unsigned Integer Arithmetic API now in JDK 8
http://www.java.net/external?url=http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/unsigned_api
25 Best Free Eclipse Plug-ins for Java Developer to be Productive
http://www.fromdev.com/2012/01/25-best-free-eclipse-plug-ins-for-java.html
The Word Count Example
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2012/01/25/about-the-performance-of-map-reduce-jobs/
Programming
The Problem with Threads
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf
Technology
The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms-0118.html
Apple becomes biggest semiconductor buyer
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372388/apple-becomes-biggest-semiconductor-buyer
Let’s make TCP faster
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html
Intel Upsets Apple Cart, Snaps Up QLogic’s InfiniBand Biz
http://insidehpc.com/2012/01/24/intel-upsets-apple-cart-snaps-up-qlogics-infiniband-biz/
University leads the way on high performance computing
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7893
Games
C&C – HTML5
http://apps.nahklick.de/cnc/
RSS Digest: Week Ending 20-Jan-2012
Java
JVM Performance Tuning (notes)
http://www.umbrant.com/blog/2012/twitter_jvm_tuning.html
File I/O (Featuring NIO.2)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileio.html
Copying Arrays Fast
http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue124.html
Programming
Linked Lists Are, Like, So Last Century
http://drdobbs.com/parallel/232400466
Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren_html/
Technology
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I: Early Initialization
http://drdobbs.com/parallel/232300699
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization
http://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/232400476
Microsoft Raises ‘State of the Art’ Son of NTFS
http://insidehpc.com/2012/01/18/microsoft-raises-state-of-the-art-son-of-ntfs/
RSS Digest: Week Ending 13-Jan-2012
Java
Writing Low-Level Network Utilities With Java
http://insanelycrazy.net/development/faces/viewarticle.xhtml?id=23
Programming
ELF
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~charngda/elf.html
5 ways to get insane productivity boosts for coders
http://yanpritzker.com/2006/10/03/five-ways-to-get-insane-productivity-boosts/
Linux
What’s new in Linux 3.2
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-2-1400680.html
Linux 3.2 Kernel Benchmarks
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_32_kernel&num=1
Finance
QuantNet’s Best-Selling Books of 2011
http://www.quantnet.com/quantnet-best-selling-books-2011/
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