February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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david holmes: minimize garbage generation: gc is your friend, not your servant
David Holmes: Minimize Garbage Generation: GC is your Friend, not your Servant
Automatic memory management, a.k.a Garbage Collection, is one of the main benefits of a managed object-oriented language like Java. But in many ways its presence has made us lazy and sloppy: we don't care about generating garbage because "objects are cheap" and "the GC can clean it up easily". There is some truth in that, but it isn't a universal constant! Not all GCs ...
Date: January, 12 2010
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/dholmes/entry/minimize_garbage_generation
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