SAN FRANCISCO — A new benchmark is needed to measure Java's performance, according to designers and some sellers of silicon-based Java accelerators. The need is made more pressing by Java's increased ...

When considering a benchmark to determine the overall performance of a Java application, the impact of byte code execution, graphics and native code execution varies depending on the nature of the ...

It didn't take long for developers to start putting Microsoft's new .NET Core. 2.0 release through its paces in benchmark tests against alternative languages. Microsoft last week released .NET Core ...

One of the big reasons people have been interested in JRuby lately is because it is currently the only Ruby implementation that can both host multiple instances in a single process and run threads ...

Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its lead ...