Peter Lawrey

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Why does Math.round(0.49999999999999994) return 1

java floating-point rounding asked Mar 28 '12 at 7:30

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Any idea why I need to cast an integer literal to (int) here?

java syntax casting asked Oct 26 '11 at 8:14

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58 votes

Strange array return type

java arrays syntax declaration asked Jan 7 at 20:11

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40 votes

Ways to improve performance consistency

java performance concurrency asked Nov 1 '11 at 16:33

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29 votes

Incompatible type with Arrays.asList()

java generics asked Dec 30 '12 at 15:03

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Testing a Java library using 100 - 1000 GB of memory

java testing hosting asked Aug 9 '11 at 17:40

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Memory barriers and the TLB

java centos memory-mapped-files tlb memory-barriers asked Nov 30 '11 at 12:11

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Is support for compressed Strings being dropped?

java performance jvm java-7 asked Jan 12 '12 at 10:17

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18 votes

Why do some floating point numbers appear with a trailing 0

java floating-point render-to-string asked Sep 27 '11 at 5:19

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Is there any reason EnumMap and EnumSet are not Navigable

java collections enums asked Jul 17 '12 at 11:18

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Java core API anti-Patterns. What is wrong?

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try-finally block prevents StackOverflowError

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Legal identifiers in Java

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Moving decimal places over in a double

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Creating a memory leak with Java

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Java += operator

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Hidden Features of Java

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Default value of Boolean in java

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I still can't figure out how to program?

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How to count the number of 1's a number will have in binary?

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How to read a large text file line by line in java?

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What does this line mean in Java: boolean retry = id == 1;

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Removing an element from an Array (Java)

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Avoiding 'instanceof' in Java

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Java this.method() vs method()

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Why does Double.NaN==Double.NaN return false?

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How can Eclipse create a class with unresolved compilation problems?

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Does Java have a path joining method?

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Hidden Features of Java

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I'm maintaining a Java class that's 40K lines long.. problem?

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Access restriction on class due to restriction on required library rt.jar?

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difference between Iterator and Listiterator?

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Why is it not allowed in Java to overload Foo(Object…) with Foo(Object[])?

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Best way to make Java's modulus behave like it should with negative numbers?

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Is there a practical use for weak references?

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Declaring a useless local variable

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Why is creating a Thread said to be expensive?

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Why can't we use assertion for public methods?

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How do you compare two version Strings in Java?

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Random weighted selection Java framework

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