LONDON — A U.K. startup has designed a Java byte code processor around the ARCtangent-A4 32-bit RISC core and claims it achieves better Java performance than ARM's Jazelle at the same clock frequency.

Embedded Java implementations run up against performance problems because of the stack structures the language requires. Java implements a stack-based programming model, in which two stacks are ...

Key to a software approach is flexibility. A variety of alternatives are available for different processors, operating systems (OSs), and development environments. Java applications can be easily ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

High-performance processors can interpret Java virtual-machine (JVM) bytecodes faster, or compile them to native code more quickly, than the average processor. However, there are a number of reasons ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...