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Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

Formulus Black’s Forsa will see an upgrade to version 3.1 next month that will add wider support for persistent memory products in its product, which can convert server memory to block-access storage.

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...

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 ...

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 ...