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  Is "Performance" Subjective or Objective in nature? (Editor's note: This post is likely to open a huge can of whoop-*ss on this blog, so unless you want to get caught up in the huge bar fight that's about to break out, you're advised to take your whiskey or beer and head outside for a smoke... Posted Apr 10 2008, 08:34 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: blog entry, dynamic language, benchmarks, amp nbsp, scala, perf, groovy, discrepancy, spiewak, mop, bar fight, option type, meta programming, whoop, gradient, metaobject protocol, ray tracer, optimizer, performance times, disbelievers

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  The Complexities of Black Boxes Kohsuke Kawagachi has posted a blog entry describing how to watch the assembly code get generated by the JVM during execution, using a non-product (debug or fastdebug) build of Hotspot and the -XX:+PrintOptoAssembly flag, a trick he says he learned while... Posted Apr 06 2008, 12:48 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: blog entry, debug, repositories, error message, jvm, assembly code, theserverside java symposium, inner workings, source file, globals, assembly instructions, dead chicken, server flag, heap, b24, three times, c2, hotspot, megs, squint

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  Developer paradise? Check out this video . No, go on, watch it. The rest of this won't make much sense until you do. Now that you've seen it, take a moment, do the "WOW" thing in your head, imagine how cool it would be to work there, all of it. Go on, I... Posted Apr 03 2008, 03:02 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: google, blog entry, excitement, spectrum, legacy, distractions, video game room, fish tank, wow thing, cube farm, anecdotal evidence, continuum, quiet zones, massage chair, stimulus, audio noise, thinking time, dilbert

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  Highlights of the Lang.NET Symposium, Day Three (from memory) My Mac froze when I tried to hook it up to the projector in the afternoon to do a 15-minute chat on Scala, thus losing the running blog entry in its entirety. Crap. This is my attempt to piece this overview together from memory--accordingly, details may... Posted Jan 30 2008, 07:32 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: visual studio, blog entry, ruby, good stuff, wayne kelly, perl 6, course details, half hour, long suit, wrapper class, language specification, parsing, java object, code generation, rhino, parser generator, personal errands, gardens point, scala, fun stuff