Everything about Java performance

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Java performanceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Predictive Performance Modeling of Java-Based Microservices in Dynamic Cloud Environments Using Machine Learning Focus: ML prediction and Java optimizationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Java and high performance computingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Statistically rigorous java performance evaluationCited 147 times
5. Go sideways: Just-in-time compilationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Java (software platform)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Statistically rigorous java performance evaluation

  Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout · 2007 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 147 citations

• Java programming for high-performance numerical computing

  J. E. Moreira, S. P. Midkiff, M. Gupta · 2000 · IBM Systems Journal · 77 citations

• A benchmark suite for high performance Java

  J. M. Bull, L. A. Smith, M. D. Westhead · 2000 · Concurrency: Practice and Experience · 50 citations

• Titanium: a high-performance Java dialect

  Kathy Yelick, Luigi Semenzato, Geoff Pike · 1998 · Concurrency: Practice and Experience · 39 citations

• Techniques for obtaining high performance in Java programs

  Iffat H. Kazi, Howard H. Chen, Berdenia Stanley · 2000 · ACM Computing Surveys · 36 citations

• Java RMI performance and object model interoperability: experiments with Java/HPC++

  Fabian Breg, Shridhar Diwan, Juan Villacis · 1998 · Concurrency: Practice and Experience · 34 citations

• Compilers for improved Java performance

  C.-H.A. Hsieh, M.T. Conte, T.L. Johnson · 1997 · Computer · 21 citations

• Performance of Parallel K-Means Algorithms in Java

  Libero Nigro · 2022 · Algorithms · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Predictive Performance Modeling of Java-Based Microservices in Dynamic Cloud Environments Using Machine Learning Focus: ML prediction and Java optimization

  Tirumala Rao Gundala · 2025 · International Journal of Cloud Computing and Supply Chain Management · 24 citations

• Automated Detection of Software Performance Antipatterns in Java-Based Applications

  Catia Trubiani, Riccardo Pinciroli, Andrea Biaggi · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 17 citations

• Performance Study of Kotlin and Java Programs with Bytecode Analysis

  Hayataka Nakamura, Atsuya Sonoyama, Takeshi Kamiyama · 2024 · Journal of Information Processing · 4 citations

• Performance test of pilot Earthquake Early Warning system in western Java, Indonesia

  Ariska Rudyanto, Angga Wijaya, Sri Widiyantoro · 2024 · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 4 citations

• Benchmarking and Categorizing the Performance of Neural Program Repair Systems for Java

  Wenkang Zhong, Chuanyi Li, Kui Liu · 2024 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Java and high performance computingFabian Breg · 2001
• 📕Proceedings of the ACM 2000 Java Grande ConferenceCalif.) ACM Java Grande Conference (2000 San Francisco · 2000
• Proceedings of the ACM 2001 Java Grande/ISCOPE ConferenceACM Java Grande/ISCOPE Conference (2001 Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2001
• JGI '02ACM Java Grande-ISCOPE Conference (2nd (2002 Seattle, Wash.) · 2002
• Instant Macromedia Flash 5Jim R., Jr. Caldwell, Samuel Wan · 2001

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