Learn how to fine-tune and parallelize the behavior of Java iterators, using Java 8's forEach() method and Streams API. Then see some performance benchmarks that might surprise you ...

In this article, key Eclipse Collections contributors demonstrate techniques for refactoring standard Java code to Eclipse Collections, and demonstrate some of the memory savings you can achieve.

Why should you use Collections class methods rather than similarly named fields to obtain empty collections? Type safety makes the crucial difference.

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

While a developer can't specifically force Java garbage collection, they can ask the JVM to prioritize the process. If developers need the JVM to free up some heap space, here are five ways to ...

The generational hypothesis is key to efficient modern garbage collection HotSpot counts the number of collections an object has survived to implement generational GC ...

I haven't used the apache collections library, but guava is the very first thing I add to any new java project. Even if you completely exclude the collections part altogether, it is still insanely ...