Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

OpenJDK proposal to reduce the Java object header by half or more would lower memory and CPU usage on all Java workloads. Java could get a smaller object header, thus improving memory usage, under a ...

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All of Java's I/O facilities are based on streams that represent flowing sequences of characters or bytes. Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object representing ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

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Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...

I need to figure out a way to convert a user defined type to a byte array and be able to reconstruct that type from the byte array. So far, what I came up with was to convert each variable in the type ...