The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

Open source Java proponents want to modernize the Java memory model, which has not been formally updated in more than nine years, and focus on concurrency. A JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal), number 188 ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — ARM introduced a new technology Monday (June 27) that the company says can dramatically reduce memory footprint while increasing performance and saving power in a wide range of ...

I have a program that needs to use a lot of memory. (Counts word frequencies in a Wikipedia dump). Well, I gent into project settings and told it that I'll be needing half a gig at least (-Xms512m ...

Hazelcast today announced the beta release of the latest version of its namesake in-memory data grid, Hazelcast IMDG 3.12. With this release, the company adds new features focused on data integrity, ...