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Java Development without GC

All products developed by Coral Blocks have the very important feature of leaving ZERO garbage behind. Because the latency imposed by the Java Garbage Collector (i.e. GC) is unacceptable for high-performance systems, the best option for real-time systems in Java is to not produce any garbage at all so that the GC never kicks in. Imagine a high-performance matching engine operating in the microsecond level, sending and receiving several thousand messages per second. If at any given time the GC decides to kick in with its 1+ millisecond latencies, the disruption in the system will be unacceptable. Therefore, if you want to develop real-time systems in Java with minimal variance and latency, the best option is to do it right without creating any garbage for the GC. In this article we will discuss best practices and how you can use Coral Blocks’ MemorySampler utility class to help you accomplish this critical goal. Continue reading →

CoralQueue Performance Numbers

In this article we present CoralQueue performance numbers for four different scenarios: message-sender latency, message transit latency, message-sender throughput and message transit throughput. The standard scenario of one producer (message-sender) and one consumer (message-receiver) is used with two possible setups: producer and consumer pinned to the same core (hyper-threading) and producer and consumer pinned to different cores (no hyper-threading). Continue reading →

The Simplicity of CoralReactor

CoralReactor is a powerful, easy to use and ultra-low-latency Java library for network communication with zero garbage creation and minimal variance. Moreover, what stands out about CoralReactor is its simplicity. In this article we will demonstrate some examples of clients and servers to get you started with CoralReactor. Continue reading →