Resources

 The following whitepapers, articles and blogs are available as references and resources related to managed runtimes.

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Robert Hundt, Scala Days 2011, Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala

Cate Metz, The Register, Google pits C++ against Java, Scala, and Go, June 3, 2011

G. Tene, B. Iyengar, and M. Wolf, June 2, 2011, C4: The Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector, ISMM '11, (c) 2011 ACM

Michael Kopp, Java-Sys-Con, May 25, 2011: How Garbage Collection Differs in the Three Big JVMs: Differences between Sun Hotspot, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle WebLogic"

Java

Gavin Clark's slides from QCon Beijing announcing project Ceylon

Ryan Paul, Ars Technica: "The rationale for Ceylon, Red Hat's new programming language"

InfoQ, April 13, 2011, Alex Blewitt: "Ceylon JVM Language"

John R. Rymer, Forrester Research, January 23, 2011: Blog Posting:       "The Future of Java"

John R. Rymer, Forrester Research, June 21, 2010; Blog Posting:                   "Why I'm Worried About Java's Future."

InfoQ, January 28, 2011,  Dionysios G. Synodinos,  NetBeans removes support for Ruby

InfoWorld, December 14, 2010, Paul Krill,  "Developers' garbage collection dilemma"

Ossia, Ben-Yitzhak and Segal, “Mostly Concurrent Compaction for Mark-Sweep GC”

Intalio, “Cloud Computing is Memory Bound”

Sun/Oracle, “Java Memory Management White Paper” (HotSpot)

Sun/Oracle, “Sun JDK Diagnostics Guide”  (J2SE 5.0)

Java Performance Tuning, Resource Guide

Precise Java, Best practices for J2EE and J2SE

.Net

Jeffrey Richter, “Garbage Collection” (this is part 1), and Part 2