At a high level, the difference between a compiled and interpreted language is that an interpreted language is compiled into an intermediary form and not machine code. Compiled code can run faster, ...

The latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

Examination of the nature of programming languages and programs which implement them. Compiler and interpreter design and implementation techniques. Review of grammars and languages (context free, ...

ZURICH—This alpine city is cool, efficient, and fun. Fittingly, so are the young software developers here who are fine-tuning a groundbreaking multilingual virtual machine. GraalVM may be an under-the ...

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.