rmprescott

Circular, "Penrose Stairs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs) might be a better extension to the student's staircase model.

n-dimensional spreadsheet with a logical data model (including hierarchies) rather than rows and columns:

Net Worth := Assets - Liabilities

The author mentioned reading in files with x "number of lines". If they are then parsing the lines into some structured format, there are likely many opportunities to look for low cardinality aspects and to reduce object tenuring by pooling strings using either String.intern or a hashset.

They should also consider increasing the eden size.

Um...isn't that a form of the Halting Problem? ;D

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Known Space series - Niven

Uplift series - Brin

Dune series - Herbert

Mars trilogy - Robinson