Recent posts by Dr. Cliff Click
Dr. Cliff Click - December 31st, 2011
A tale of beautiful canyons and PLDI reviews...
Dr. Cliff Click - December 15th, 2011
Dr. Cliff Click - November 22nd, 2011
Martin Thompson is asking me questions about writing micro-benchmarks. I’m replaying some of that conversation here (with permission!).
Dr. Cliff Click - November 16th, 2011
Between myself, Gil Tene (also of Azul Systems) and Martin Thompson.
Dr. Cliff Click - October 27th, 2011
I've been finding waaaaay too many Generic Popular Frameworks (TM) that in fact write to final fields long after the constructor has flowed under the bridge...so I need to optimize final fields for people who "play by the rules", but Do The Expected Thing for those that don't.
Dr. Cliff Click - October 17th, 2011
Final fields are supposed to be...well, final. I was quite shocked to realize the default Verification settings let such things go.
Dr. Cliff Click - October 10th, 2011
So ends the Greatest Trip of my life...Look Out World, Here I Come!
Dr. Cliff Click - October 2nd, 2011
I am boycotting it because of the recent shabby treatment of both the conference AND Java.
Dr. Cliff Click - September 23rd, 2011
Please, Oh God, Please do not make your concurrency algorithm depend on Thread.yield!!! Java needs some kind of Processor & Socket Affinity calls.
Dr. Cliff Click - August 28th, 2011
...that I wrote, and is in daily use by a few million people
