My last post was about five very simple things you can do to avoid Java programs from being slower than they need to be. The reception to this post was mixed. Some readers agreed that the problems mentioned in the post were indeed very common, while others suggested more common inefficient patterns to avoid. For example, I could have suggested to precompile regular expressions, or not to program by exception, or to avoid String.format, but I felt this was all well covered already. The aim of ...
