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 ...

The first stable release (1.0) of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. Developed by Swedish company Trillain Mobile, the open-source tool is designed ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling the ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...

GraalVM is a tool for developers to write and execute Java code. Specifically, GraalVM is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK) created by Oracle. It is a high-performance ...

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The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...