January 2012
2 posts
The Development of the C Language →
Talks about the insights that went into the development of the C language, and its evolution.
ByteBuffer
I was looking at cowtowncoder’s low-gc-membuffers, which led me to look at an introduction to Byte Buffers and the corresponding javadoc.
In short, ByteBuffer is part of the Java NIO and basically allows you to play with memory outside the garbage-collected Java heap.
An interesting/unintended take away from the intro-to-byte-buffers article is the interlude on virtual memory. Gregory...