Week of October 1, 2007
This week in the JavaWorld developer forums:
Although many algorithms can be easily parallelized, most client-side Java code is still written for single-CPU systems. In his article “Multicore processing for client-side Java applications” Java developer Kirill Grouchnikov shows how fine-tuning a core JDK array-sorting algorithm can improve processing speed by more than 30%. Some readers have objected that Kirill’s solution misses the point of multicore processing, while others simply want to pick his brain. What camp do you fall into?
More discussions in the JavaWorld developer forums:
How does explicit casting work in Java?
Has anyone used Apache Commons Configuration to connect to LDAP?
I’m getting an exception using isInstance() to test the type of an object …
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