ReDex, a tool for reducing Android app size and improve performance was launched by Facebook. There was work on optimizations to make the bytecode smaller, but it was not tested in production. With ...

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 ...

The Java virtual machine (JVM) can perform some impressive optimizations to make deployed applications run faster. But having said that, the Java community remains well aware of the fact that the ...