Java is In a different cycle releasing features from very short cycles which are considered for some folks not ideal. IMHO it's great beca... (more…)

This is a guest blog post written by Sanhong Li, Ziyi Lin, Chuansheng Lu and Kingsum Chow from the Alibaba JVM team. (more…)

Provide an initial iteration of an incubator module, jdk.incubator.vector, to express vector computations that reliably compile at runtime to optimal vector hardware instructions on supported CPU architectures and thus achieve superior performance to equi... (more…)

The Permanent Generation (PermGen) Heap is a heap in the JVM dedicated to storing the JVM’s internal representation of Java Classes (and also interned String instances). Usually, this heap is of a fixed size in the JVM and if it runs out of space then an... (more…)

Have you ever wanted to know how text editors work? How shell scripts change terminal text colors, update lines without scrolling, or move the cursor around?... (more…)