[anothergoogler]

You can benchmark reliably by warming up the JVM and disabling garbage collection.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-benchmark1...

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-benchmark2/inde...

http://www.ellipticgroup.com/html/benchmarkingArticle.html

Java now ships with microbenchmarking helpers:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/

[LukeShu]

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/why_arent_more_users_m...