Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...

Abstract: Compiler design for programming language recognition is a tedious process with crucial phases. These phases include lexical analysis, syntax parsing, semantic validation, intermediate code ...

Over 90% of production toolchains now rely on open-source compilers, driven by flexibility, cost efficiency, and strong community ecosystems Compilers like Rust and Zig are gaining traction for memory ...

If you came up building software in the 1990s or early 2000s, you remember the visceral satisfaction of determinism. You wrote code. The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the ...

SPONSORED FEATURE Java is clearly a powerhouse language when it comes to driving enterprise-scale applications. It has been around for years (first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995) and it has ...

Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up. Java’s powerful and mature ecosystem has long been a top choice for enterprise ...

Optimizations in programming have mostly been associated with more efficient data structures or algorithms. Any optimization that uses hardware resources explicitly is generally considered premature, ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

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Abstract: We want to verify the correctness of optimization phases in the GraalVM compiler, which consist of many thousands of lines of complex Java code performing sophisticated graph transformations ...