Charles Nutter‘s “JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)” was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite Ballroom A/B ...

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Compilers are a bit like Florida election officials: They’re suddenly in the spotlight after years of relative anonymity. The reason for the attention is the arrival of fast and complex 64-bit ...

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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 acceptance in the ...

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable ...