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Lewis Coosner

An electrical engineer by profession, Lewis has been involved in software development since the 1980s. He has programmed in C, C++, Fortran, Assembler, Pascal, Java and Visual Basic, and has extensive experience in the development of systems in the military and engineering environment. Lewis is primarily responsible for developing and presenting the Java and OO-related courses, and was one of the first two Java lecturers in the country to be certified by Sun Microsystems. In his free time, Lewis cycles, kayaks, hikes, caves, climbs and generally exhausts himself.
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The Ahead of Time (AOT) Compiler

The Ahead of Time (AOT) compiler compiles Java classes to native code before running the Java application. It is a way to improve performance. AOT was introduced and then removed from OpenJDK, but is still available.

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Compact Strings in Java

Compact strings in Java are an enhancement introduced in Java 9. Strings use a lot of heap memory. Reducing the internal size of a string can save memory and garbage collection overhead. Let’s have a look at how compact strings work in Java.

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Choosing a Collection in Java

Choosing a collection in Java is important. You want to know how to choose the right concrete collection class to use for your Java collection. In this article we look at choosing the interface, choosing the implementation, and comparing the various concrete classes in the Collections framework.

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Big O Notation

Big O Notation

Big O notation is a tool we use to analyse the cost of an algorithm. It is a useful concept when we want to choose which collection class to use for a particular use case

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