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October 2019 - Microsoft for Java Developers

AOT Compilation in HotSpot: Introduction

October 29, 2019 Oct 29, 2019 10/29/19
Ludovic Henry
Introduce the AOT Compiler that was introduced in Java 9 with the addition of the jaotc command-line utility. Explore some of the tradeoffs it needs to take, how the generated code fits in the Tiered Compilation pipeline, go through a simple example, and take a look at some alternatives (JIT at Startup, JIT caching, and Distributed JIT).

Java on Visual Studio Code October Update

October 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2019 10/18/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.

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