Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the Chromium project, apparently share concerns about the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Microsoft's Edge ...

JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.

G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

Azul supplies a number of Java runtimes, including Zing and Zulu (there is an embedded version of the latter). Azul’s latest offering is an updated version of Zing, that features Falcon, a new JIT ...

Java runtime solutions provider Azul Systems has just released Zing 17.03, the latest version of its Java Virtual Machine (JVM), with full support for its Falcon just-in-time (JIT) compiler. The ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...