Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x ...

The Java compiler was originally written in C, using some C++ libraries. Later JVM releases added a JIT compiler to speed up the interpreter. The current Java compiler is written in Java, although ...

MicroEJ's VEE combines C/C++ and Java into a single protected, containerized solution. MicroEJ added Managed C to its VEE framework. C code runs in a protected container (right) versus the ...

But this doesn't answer why Java was used for the game's code. There are several answers and theories, but according to Notch himself, Java had a few things going for it in the late aughts that he ...

New figures have claimed C++ is among the top three most popular programming languages used by developers today. The TIOBE Index, which promises to check more than one billion lines of code every ...

Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. ... then this gives you incentive to evaluate whether using Google’s parser in C++, Java, ...

Java is influenced by C and C++, so it has many similarities with those languages (and C#). ... It is thanks to the JVM that Java code is so easily run across platforms.