Multithreading in java: Performance and scalability on multicore systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1521-1534

  Chen, Kuo Yi ^a   Chang, J Morris ^b   Hou, Ting Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Garbage collection; Java; lock contention; multicore; performance counter; scalability; virtual machine.

Indexed keywords

GARBAGE COLLECTION; JAVA; LOCK CONTENTION; MULTI CORE; PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

BENCHMARKING; BUFFER STORAGE; COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTICORE PROGRAMMING; REFUSE COLLECTION; SCALABILITY;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 80052761040     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2010.232     Document Type: Article

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