I probably start up a JVM a thousand times a day. Test runs, benchmark runs, bug confirmation, API exploration, or running actual apps. And in many of these runs, I use various JVM switches to tweak ...

Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, ...

This project is a low overhead sampling profiler for Java that does not suffer from Safepoint bias problem. It features HotSpot-specific APIs to collect stack traces and to track memory allocations.

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 ...

"Blue Is Better, Blue Is Best." So sang the mysterious blue voice in Dougal And The Blue Cat, that great psychedelic movie. The technology industry is definitely a magic roundabout of sorts with ...

Oracle is planning to offer two versions of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) sometime in the future, one free and one a commercial "premium" version, a company spokesperson said last week. The two ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Oracle has announced that it has made Java 7 the default ...