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Will Oracle continue to invest in JRockit technology? Absolutely! JRockit is a strategic product for Oracle and its customers. Oracle will continue to invest in it significantly. Oracle will continue to pay attention to legacy-BEA and Oracle customers needs and customers should expect a strong roadmap for the JRockit JVM and all JRockit products.
Going forward, is [...]

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Hueniverse: Scaling a Microblogging Service - Part I
The social web is creating demand for new scaling tools and
technologies. Current databases and caching solutions are simply unable
to handle a complex network of multiple relationship between objects.
While databases are still a good solution for persistent storage of
social data, each retrieval requires heavy calculation.

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int64.org » Scalability isn’t everything
… application needed a queue of small objects, and on a modern quad–core CPU the cache misses were hurting performance so much that although a lock–free queue did have near 100% scalability, the overall operation was completing 165% faster with a locked queue with zero scalability.
The next best thing [...]

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Scaling Audiogalaxy to 80 million daily page views | Spiteful.com
For our most heavily accessed data set, we had an extremely good read/write ratio, so we were able to fan out to about 20 slaves from a single master. This particular database had several hundred million rows, which challenged the limits of our hardware [...]

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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Release Notes
A new malloc(3) implementation has been introduced. This implementation, sometimes referred to as “jemalloc”, was designed to improve the performance of multi-threaded programs, particularly on SMP systems, while preserving the performance of single-threaded programs. Due to the use of different algorithms and data structures, jemalloc may expose some previously-unknown bugs [...]

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