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2013/06/17 15:20
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2013/06/14 14:51
Getting numbers is so much fun, and rarely fails to disappoint.
2013/06/10 21:04
It’s been quite a while that I did not post anything. The reason is that I was busy with a very interesting new project in the last weeks, Shenandoah, a new GC for OpenJDK. Christine, a collegue of mine in Red Hat’s Java team, set out to build a next generation garbage collector for OpenJDK. […]
2013/06/10 20:16

The Timezone Updater Tool (aka TZUpdater) is available for public download from OTN [1] again.

2013/06/10 00:32
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines. This release is the next major release supporting OpenJDK 7. It is based on what will eventually become the upstream u40 [...]
2013/06/08 20:48
As noted on a recent /. and TSS thread, some have noticed that a tool known as the Java SE Time Zone Updater (aka “TZUpdater”) is no longer publicly available.  There seems to be some misunderstanding about the purpose of … Continue reading
2013/05/31 15:15

A simple working model of a valveless pulse jet engine inspired by an article in Make magazine. I found our worked better without the diffuser. Read the full article before you try this at home. Sometimes our blog systems does not allow embedded video, so just in case you can use this direct link.

2013/05/31 14:54
2013/05/31 14:34

"Lightweight Contention Management for Efficient Compare-and-Swap Operations" by Dave Dice, Danny Hendler and Ilya Mirsky will appear in Euro-Par 2013. A longer technical report is also available in arxiv.

2013/05/30 18:45
2013/05/30 14:11

Compile the following code:

class Base {   protected final void finalize() {     System.out.println("Base.finalize");   } } class Derived extends Base {   private void fin_lize() {     System.out.println("Derived.finalize");   }   public static void main(String[] args) {     new Derived();     System.gc();     System.runFinalization();   } } ...
2013/05/29 23:06

The recent series of patches1 for javadoc completes the work started during JDK 7 to change the internal data model for standard javadoc doclets from strings to a document tree. As a result of this work, there should no longer be any unnecessary internal conversion from tree nodes to strings and back again.

2013/05/29 14:34
import eu.hansolo.enzo.lcd.Lcd;
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2013/06/17 18:50
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