on Java - Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches
summary
Java reaches about 33–34 years and the talk catalogs concrete surprises: praise for HotSpot GCs that cut hardware use and pushed latency into submillisecond ranges; a practical string template writer hack that removes a level of copies in logging; experiments showing operator overloading of accessors (subscript and subscript-assign) yields the biggest readability wins; the NetBeans Jackpot refactoring engine stays fast with hundreds of rules; an empirical find of five HTTP stacks coexisting in one app, causing bloat.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:48fractal nature of knowledge
- 2:27about me
- 9:27function styles
- 12:26recursion
- 13:42hideous hacks
- 17:37Java annotations
- 22:08Sea Heritage
- 25:18braces
- 31:50cast and instance
- 33:28runtime exceptions
- 37:08operator overloading
- 42:18Greek letters
- 45:53Record
- 50:51PhD thesis topics
- 53:41HTTP
- 56:03Finalizers
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