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 ...

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 ...

PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

The goal of Project Leyden is to "address the long-term pain points of Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there "by introducing a concept ...