Super Soft Cafe

Quite some time ago Sun decided that Java needed a new IO architecture, and so NIO was born. You can use Java and be safely ignorant of NIO for most purposes, until you come to high performance servers, fast copy operations, etc…  Anywhere where speed is of the essence.

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I have had a fascination with the game of life by Conway for many years, too many to mention. I wrote a life client on an A5000 and optimized the hell out of it on that beautiful ARM processor. That little 20 mhz ARM out performed a 66 mhz 486 dx2 in this discipline.

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