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/