RSS Digest: Week Ending 26-Mar-2012

Java

Oracle lays out long-range Java intentions
http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-lays-out-long-range-java-intentions-188739

Fun with my-Channels Nirvana and Azul Zing
http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/fun-with-my-channels-nirvana-and-azul.html

Java Tuning in a Nutshell – Part 1
http://randomlyrr.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/java-tuning-in-nutshell-part-1.html?m=1

Finance

School for quants
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0664cd92-6277-11e1-872e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1oEeYcqi8

Too Many Hats
http://hackingnasdaq.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/too-many-hats.html

High-frequency trading in the foreign exchange market
http://epchan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/high-frequency-trading-in-foreign.html

Linux

What’s new in Linux 3.3
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-3-1466872.html

Linux Kernel Performance: Flame Graphs
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/03/17/linux-kernel-performance-flame-graphs/

Intel Core i7 AVX GCC Compiler Tuning Results
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NjE

GCC Turns 25 Years Old, GCC 4.7 Released
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NTE

Technology

Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 review
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/373696/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680