Introduction. 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 ...

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 ...

Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...