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Deep dive into bits, bytes, shorts, ints, longs, signed, and unsigned with Java

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More On the Pi4J discussion list, someone recently asked what the best and easiest way is in Java to convert a byte value. In Java, there is no distinction between signed and unsigned bytes, which can be confusing. My book “Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi” contains an explanation about …

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Changes Included in Release 24.08 of Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK, the optimized Java runtime within Azul Platform Prime, has reached the release of the 24.08 Stable Release line. Zing builds are available in two versions: Stream Builds: Fast-moving monthly releases (end of the month) that include the latest features and changes in PSU releases. These are …

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Profile IntelliJ IDEA with its own profiler

Author: Igor Kulakov Original post on Foojay: Read More Other languages: Español 한국어 Português 中文 Just like my previous post, this one is going to be slightly meta. Obviously, you can use IntelliJ IDEA to profile another process, but did you know IntelliJ IDEA can profile itself? This might be useful if you are writing an IntelliJ IDEA plugin and …

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