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 ...

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual ...

A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

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 ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

ZURICH—This alpine city is cool, efficient, and fun. Fittingly, so are the young software developers here who are fine-tuning a groundbreaking multilingual virtual machine. GraalVM may be an under-the ...

Leaning Technologies announced the second major release of its CheerpJ Java compiler for the Web this week. This release, which was two years in the making, adds WebAssembly runtime modules, which are ...