Andy Shulman questions

• Tokenizing multiple strings simultaneously
• Avoiding failed inserts to avoid spurious autoincrement
• Rabin's Nearest Neighbor (Closest pair of points) Algorithm?
• Java threading/volatile
• Performant algorithm to rationalize floats
• Why does Java 8 apply annotations differently to derived classes?
• Fast way to find exponent of nearest superior power of 2
• Is it possible to tell the branch predictor how likely it is to follow the branch?

Andy Shulman answers