A (deliberately inefficient) version of Conway's Game of Life which is being edited for the worst class ever, CS1530 Software Engineering.
If you have never played with the Game of Life, you are in for a treat! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
Now that is the kind of pudding that only $240 can buy.
There is a (deliberately) hidden inefficient method in this repo, which it is your job to find and refactor using VisualVM.