https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/mechanical-sympathy/ Recent content in Mechanical-Sympathy on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:42:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2012/12/mechanical-sympathy-writing-java-that-respects-the-hardware/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:42:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2012/12/mechanical-sympathy-writing-java-that-respects-the-hardware/ Martin Thompson's term 'mechanical sympathy' reframed how I think about software performance. Here's what it means in practice when writing Java for latency-sensitive systems.