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Volume 39, Number 1, 2000
Java Performance
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Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface - References

by D. Viswanathan and S. Liang

Cited references and note

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  5. OptimizeIt 3.0 Professional, Intuitive Systems, Inc., Cupertino, CA (1999), available at http://www.optimizeit.com/ index.html.
  6. JProbe, KL Group, Inc., Toronto (1999), available at http://www.klgroup.com/.
  7. TrueTime and TrueCoverage, NuMega, Compuware Corp., Farmington Hills, MI (1999), available at http://www.numega.com/.
  8. SPECjvm98 Benchmarks, The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPGC), Manassas, VA (1998), available at http://www.spec.org/osg/jvm98/.
  9. Deadlocks may also be caused by implicit locking and ordering in libraries and system calls, such as I/O operations.
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