The Java Virtual Machine, renowned for the “write once, run anywhere” portability of Java programs, is being considered for ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, which would enable faster startup ...

We are introducing a brand-new JIT compiler to the JVM, and it is based on LLVM. The reason this is big news, we think, especially in the JVM community, is that the current JIT compiler that’s in use ...

Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler Here’s an example of a feature included in Java 10 that’s not entirely ready for prime time, and that’s why it’s called experimental. Let’s take a ...

The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

Java virtual machines (JVMs) are built from a variety of pieces. One is the Java language. Java bytecodes are the machine code for a JVM, and Java compilers are needed to translate ...

Dynamic languages are the up-and-coming competitors to Java. Expanding their scope beyond glue code and Web GUIs into the heavy-duty challenges once faced only with a compiler, languages such as ...

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 ...

Cloud Native Compiler introduces a cloud-centric approach that decouples Just in Time (JIT) compilation from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM); it is compatible with all Java applications and retains ...

Up until Oracle’s release of GraalVM 1.0, developers had to rely on the fast but difficult-to-understand C2 JIT compiler within Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to optimize their server code. Further ...