There are varieties of embedded systems in the world, it’s a big challenge to optimized the instruction sets of SoCs according to different systems’ working environments. The idea of dynamic ...

Jazelle Extension Another way to speed Java execution on a standard RISC architecture is to extend the architecture itself, to directly execute Java instructions. ARM designers added a new Java ...

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 ...

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 ...

The solution was to create a PC virtual machine for the non-Intel-based systems that worked within these constrained resources. A DOS/Windows application is run on this virtual machine, and its Intel ...

Most Java programmers, at one time or another, have wondered how the JVM works. Java bytecode programming reveals much insight into the JVM and helps developers program Java better. Also, the ability ...