High-Performance Java Platform Computing: Multithreaded and Networked Programming

Rating:
Summary: Fairly good
Review: Fairly good

The author first talks about the foundation of efficieny, scalability, parallelism..... etc.

Second part is the discussion of multithreading. The problems like race conditions, mutual exclusion, thread monitors, parallelizing loops and synchronization are discussed in great detail.

Some algorithms for increasing efficiency and performance diagrams are provided throughout the book to give reader a clear view in understanding the topics.

The last part is about network programming which talk about socket and simple messaging architecture.

The strength of this book over the other java performance tuning book is that it integrates some algorithms into the code(major factor) to increase performance rather than just talks about in preventing the use of certain low performance java code(minor factor).

However, the book seems losing the way in targeting audience. The content of the book doesn't specific to any field.