The Java compiler developed for Eclipse is widely regarded as being one of the fastest and most capable in the industry, perhaps surpassing Sun's own javac. Due partly to its quality, and partly to ...

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The first stable release (1.0) of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. Developed by Swedish company Trillain Mobile, the open-source tool is designed ...

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Eclipse is an open-source, extensible integrated development environment (IDE) that's growing quickly in popularity. Written in Java, it provides a multilanguage development environment that allows ...

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 ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...