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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780201709698
ISBN: 0201709694
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 10, 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Sales Rank: 227528
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
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Rating:  - Saved me a couple of times
OK, so my initial impression of this book was similar to many others. It seemed thin and only provided a shallow treatment of the topic. After reading it I put it back on the shelf.
Having said that, the couple of times I have hit a brick wall with performance problems that I couldn't solve with my own experience and skill, I have reached for this book and found an immediate and effective solution. You can't ask for more than that.
If you are rewriting the Quake engine in ... Read More
Rating: - Buy it if you're a Swing developer
Although this is a nice-to-have book (for bookworms like us which isn't after all?), I wouldn't really recommend it as the book to buy for Java performance any more, other than for people that are doing Swing, for whom it would indeed be greatly beneficial. Jack Shirazi's "Java Performance Tuning" is becoming the de facto standard Java performance book, and a second edition of it has come out, which is pretty up-to-date. On the other hand, Wilson's book is starting to show its age.
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Rating: - Not very helpful for experienced java developers
I would definitely reccomend this book to someone who is not at all familiar with performance tactics in Java, but this book does not adds much to the much known tactics/tips/tricks used in everyday programming or found on web.
Since this book was from Sun Press I definitely expected more from this book considering the depth provided by other books from them. But this book embarrased me by reiterating the tricks already known and introducing the esoteric concept of benchmarking and not providing ... Read More
Rating:  - Very poor and shallow
It's a shame that Sun fellows can only come with so little material about Java performance.
Even JavaWorld articles contain more information about the subject. For example, when
talking about optimizing the serialization process all authors can offer is to set more
fields to be transient. Is that all you can think of ? How about custom writeObject, folks ?
When discussing data structures and algorithms all authors can say is "choose accordingly,
it depends". Oh, thank you, I didn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent
Well-written, very technical, and without the useless filler that you see so often in computer books.
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