As I stated last November when I
reviewed his previous book, I am a fan of
Bruce Tate. He writes well and delivers useful content.
His newest book is From Java To Ruby,
published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
It is a quick read (150 pages) and
the price is right (about $19 from
amazon.com). There are some rough spots
where I wish he had provided more details to backup some of his somewhat...
I have always thought that profilers are just debuggers with a different name. Case in
point: in a debugger I can watch the logic of my program change things like
the value of a variable. Similarly, one of the things I can watch in a profiler is how my program
uses memory. For example, I can see the number of instances of a particular class
that have been created. In general, then, these are...
