Azul has launched a cloud-native compiler, improving the time to peak performance for Java applications. By delegating JIT to an external system, applications can reach higher throughput, faster than ...

To achieve its goal of "Write once, run anywhere," Java does both: a Java compiler converts Java code into machine-readable bytecode, then the Java Virtual Machine interprets the code for the ...

To compile Eclipse natively, Red Hat's Eclipse Engineering team used GCJ, a free, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for Java. GCJ can compile Java source code to native machine code, Java source code ...

Generics are used in Java to allow types or methods to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety. Generics address the problem of ClassCastExceptions being ...

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 ...

A developer claims that Java 7's new bytecode verifier slows performance and increases coding effort, potentially affecting the entire Java ecosystem.

The bytecode is then executed by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). JVMs today use a technique called Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation to produce native instructions that the system’s CPU can execute.

1. The Java compiler: javac. The javac utility is the most important command-line interface tool you will find in the JDK's bin directory. This is the Java compiler, and whether you use Maven, Gradle, ...