How a profiler can improve your Java applications

If you have been working with c++ programs for longer than five years, you should be well aware of the difficulties involved with debugging software. However, many younger programmers don't have experience with these issues because java deals with memory problems by using what is called the garbage collector.

Whenever a new object is created in java, the java virtual machine will reserve memory for it, and if the object reference disappears, the memory will be reclaimed. Because of this simple tool, your small to medium sized java programs will not crash due to memory issues. When it does fail due to memory issues, many java programmers have problems.

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