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.

Porting of Java Reference Implementation Marks a Major Milestone, Enabling Native Execution of Enterprise, Cloud, and Big Data Applications on Prodigy ISA OpenJDK is the free, open-source reference ...

Cell phones using Sun Microsystems' Java software have finally begun shipping, but the real payoff is expected when phones begin using special Java chips to improve performance. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

The company is expected to announce plans to speed up its version of Java for servers by letting the software run directly on processors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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 ...

Most processors are used in embedded systems, where the processor architectures are diverse due to optimizations for different application domains. The main challenge for embedded system processors is ...