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August 2023 - Microsoft for Java Developers

Java on Visual Studio Code – August 2023

August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, welcome to our August update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog we are going to provide you more improvements about de-compiler support. Additionally, we are going to show creating Maven projects without archetype and important code highlighting bug fix. Let's get started! More Decompiler Support Improvements When we ...

How Tiered Compilation works in OpenJDK

August 21, 2023 Aug 21, 2023 08/21/23
Cesar Soares
The OpenJDK HotSpot runtime system is a complex piece of software that employs several techniques to optimize the execution of Java programs on the fly. The system is composed of two different compilers, one interpreter and several different Garbage Collectors, among several other components. These compilers are orchestrated in a tiered ...