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Excelsior JET 7.0 Beta Announcement In `tomcat-users’
Yesterday I announced the Excelsior JET 7.0 public beta program in the `tomcat-users’ mailing list at apache.org. The announcement has sparked a small discussion, but the follow-up would be a bit too...
View ArticleSponsored Project: SimuLab Flight Simulator
We have donated free Excelsior JET licenses to the SimuLab project, aimed at creating an open source flight simulator. They were apparently impressed by the performance of the native build: CPU peaks...
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Comparative Study of Java Startup Time
The recently issued Excelsior JET 7.2 was, in essence, a maintenance release, because the Excelsior Java team is now mostly focused on the development of the 64-bit version of Excelsior JET....
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Native Compiled Intellij IDEA Release Notes
Some time ago, JetBrains introduced a free edition of its brightest Intellij IDEA IDE. Excelsior used this opportunity to native compile and package this edition of IDEA with Excelsior JET and made the...
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Tools We Use: YourKit Java Profiler
Even though the primary focus of Excelsior has always been on programming languages and their implementation – compilers, managed runtimes (JVM), tooling, etc., our Professional Services Department...
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The Number of Garbage Collectors in Excelsior JET Is About to Double
Over the years, Sun and Oracle engineers have developed so many different garbage collection techniques for the HotSpot VMs — from Uniprocessor Train GC algorithm to Parallel Scavenge to (incremental)...
View ArticleVideo: Nikita Lipsky Talks About Java AOT Compilation @JavaZone 2016
Our very own Nikita Lipsky, one of the "fathers" of the Excelsior JET project, was at the JavaZone conference in Oslo last week to give a talk about Java AOT compilation. Here are the video and slides...
View ArticleAOT-compiled Jake2 Runs on a Raspberry Pi 3
On the last day before a new version release, Excelsior JET engineers play Jake2, a Java port of the open source Quake2 game engine. This time however we were not sure if it will work at all on the new...
View ArticleVideo: Nikita Lipsky Talks About Unity And Conflict of JIT And AOT Compilers...
Watch our Nikita Lipsky speaking about JIT and AOT compilers at Riga Dev Days 2017. Slides:
View ArticleExcelsior JET 12 To Introduce Profile-Guided Optimization
Excelsior JET 12, available now for early access, is set to introduce Profile-Guided Optimization, bridging the gap with the advanced JIT compilers, as well as many other novelties aimed squarely at...
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