Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the company’s open source distribution of Java, has added an experimental feature to improve escape analysis compiler optimization results.. With a patch and security ...

CheerpJ is a Java bytecode-to-JavaScript compiler that is compatible with 100 percent of Java. It's designed to compile any Java SE application, library or Java applet into a JavaScript application.

Because GraalVM is the first compiler of its kind written completely in Java—a memory-safe language designed for productivity—unlike other compilers, it’s easy for developers to read and modify.

Google’s Closure compiler, for optimizing and transpling JavaScript, no longer needs Java to run. Instead, Java source code is compiled to JavaScript so it can run under Node.js or in a browser.

Azul has launched a cloud-native compiler, improving the time to peak performance for Java applications. By delegating JIT to an external system, applications can reach higher throughput, faster than ...

A bug in a Java 8 support release caused the ternary operator to behave incorrectly in certain corner-cases. The bug has been fixed, and should not be a problem today. More to the point, Java 8 is no ...