News Flash: Multi-core programming is "hard". EVERYBODY PANIC.

ZOMFG: We either need new tools, new languages or both! Right Now!

Here's one example. You can find others. "Taming the Multicore Beast":

The next piece is application software, and most of the code that has been written in the past has …

The ORM layer is magic, right?

The ORM layer "hides" the database, right?

We never have to think about persistence, right? It just magically "happens."

Wrong.

Here's some quotes from a recent email:

"Somehow people are surprised that we would have performance issues. Somehow people are surprised that now that …

Quite a while ago, I compared Java and PL/SQL to gauge their relative performance.

Recently (okay, back in mid-June) I got this request.

One thing I would like to compare is Java vs PL/SQL using native compilation (search Oracle for NCOMP). Would you be willing to repeat your …

Here's an amazing Stack Overflow question.

The follow-up conversation is great stuff.

The question shows two versions of approximately the same processing. Python is faster than Java. That's unexpected.

Java has static compilation and the hot-spot translation to machine code. Apparently, Python has some optimizations that are just as valuable …