In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

Azul has launched a new cloud-native compiler that offloads Java JIT compilation from a local system to an elastic resource, lowering the amount of resources needed to run the application and ...

The Java virtual machine (JVM) can perform some impressive optimizations to make deployed applications run faster. But having said that, the Java community remains well aware of the fact that the ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...

Java applications run on the JVM, but what do you know about JVM technology? This article, the first in a series, is an overview of how a classic Java virtual machine works such as pros and cons of ...

The language of Android is Java and Java is slightly different to some of the other popular mainstream programming languages in that it compiles to an intermediate code (often known as bytecode) and ...