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Java performance urban legends

Pretty good article on Java performance "urban legends".

In summary...

  • Urban performance legend #1: Synchronization is really slow

  • Urban performance legend #2: Declaring classes or methods final makes them faster

  • Urban performance legend #3: Immutable objects are bad for performance

Thanks to Demitrious for the link.

Comments

So I guess "Java is friggin' slow" has to be supported by *different* reasons now? :-)

Yeah Steve, just compare it to C code. :)

Actually, I was comparing it to Visual Basic ;-)