Rafael Winterhalter - An introduction to JVM performance

Writing software for a virtual machine allows developers to forget about machine code assembly, interrupts and processor caches. This makes Java a convenient language, but all too many developers see the JVM as a black box and are often unsure of how to optimize their code for performance. This unfortunately adds credence to the myth that Java is always outperformed by native languages. In this talk we’ll take a peek at the inner workings of the HotSpot Virtual Machine, its Just-In-Time Compiler and the interplay with a computer’s hardware. From this, we will understand the more common optimizations that a virtual machine applies to be better equipped to improve and to reason about a Java program’s performance, and how to correctly measure runtime!