Eye on Performance: Profiling on the Edge

By Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine
2005-04-21


The Final Word
We saw a question once in a Unix discussion group that asked, "What do Unix gurus use to edit text?" The ensuing discussion had advocates for vi, Emacs, and many more. But the undoubted correct answer was "Unix gurus edit text with whatever is available." The Java platform is blessed with some truly excellent profilers. But ultimately, you need data to analyze if you want to tune, and you have to be prepared to get that data whichever way you can.

Tutorial Pages:
» What do you do When Your Tools are Too Fat?
» A Trip to the Fat Farm
» Back to the Beginning
» Simple But Ugly
» The Final Word
» Resources


First published by IBM developerWorks

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