Java Benchmarks with JMH

Useful benchmarking is hard, but there are tools and patterns to help

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Almost every developer knows the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, coined by Donald Knuth in 1974. But how are we supposed to know what is worthy of being optimized?

Our computing power improved manifold since then. But the sentiment to focus on the real…