Category Archives: Benchmark

Analyzing the “ecological footprint” of java algorithms

Posted on August 24, 2014 by axtaxt

When trying to optimize algorithms implemented in java, not just cputime, and memory footprint are important, but often we are interested in the amount of generated garbage. If your service is bounded by some availability agreements having a deep knowledge … Continue reading →

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IO trace generation in java: experimenting with sun.misc.IoTrace

Posted on September 19, 2013 by axtaxt

I’ve recently checked the new features in the latest release (1.7.0_40) of Oracle’s Java SE, when I stumbled upon a new class, sun.misc.IoTrace. The source of sun.misc.IoTrace can be viewed here. Its basically and “empty” class, which does nothing, and … Continue reading →

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[revised] Benchmark: Rhino vs Chrome V8 on server side

Posted on December 25, 2012 by axtaxt

It was a while ago, when I’ve created the post, titled ‘Benchmark: Rhino vs Chrome V8 on server side’. Since then, it has received a lot of critics about the measurement method, so I’ve decided to rerun the measurements: I’ve … Continue reading →

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Benchmark: Rhino vs Chrome V8 on server side

Posted on September 25, 2011 by axtaxt

Since this post received a lot of criticism about the measurement method, I’ve created a revised version from it. Here you can continue with the old post:

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Hyperic vs Mysql Connector/J

Posted on January 22, 2011 by axtaxt

I’ve started to benchmark a circular replicated mysql cluster last week, and found some strange behaviour. The cluster contains 10 nodes. The storage engine is MyISAM. We mostly do writes in that cluster. The benchmark was to create a simple … Continue reading →

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