International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies- CompSysTech ’ 2005 MEMORY SENSITIVE CACHING IN JAVA

Abstract: This paper describes the architecture of memory sensitive Java cache, which benefits from both the “on demand ” soft reference objects de-allocation provided by the JVM and the good hit-rate behaviour of the Last Recently Used (LRU) eviction policy. The experiments show that such cache implementation outperforms the fixed size LRU cache implementation and has the same stability under high load, heavy memory allocation and garbage collecting. The described technique can efficiently improve the performance of a fixed size memory cache implementation