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 ...

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

Applications written in traditional programming languages like C or C++ are compiled into ones and zeroes, but more modern programming languages like Java are compiled into bytecode, an intermediate ...

The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly The next step in the evolution of JavaScript and asm.js is to do away with both of them.

Below this however is Dalvik, Google’s own virtual machine that compiles Java applications into Dalvik bytecode rather than Java bytecode.

John talks to Java mavens about why, despite licensing controversies, seemingly endless security challenges and the rise of languages like Node.js, Python, Google Go and JavaScript, Java continues to ...

The Bytecode Alliance calls for new members in mission to build safer software foundations for the internet.

Direct execution of Java byte code is possible thanks to a Java extension to the ARM processor core by ARM Ltd., Cambridge, England. Known as Jazelle, the new Java acceleration feature initially ...

It's a fair question to ask: Is Java slow? If you focus solely on performance time and resource consumption, it lags behind C++, but overall Java is still quite fast.