This repository is primarily to be used as a companion to the upcomming book From Basics To Bytecode: A guide to computers and programming. Here you should be able to find more information, errata, ...

Bytecode basics: The bytecode format: Bytecodes are the machine language of the Java virtual machine. When a JVM loads a class file, it gets one stream of bytecodes for each method in the class. The ...

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In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

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 ...