It wasn’t long ago that we introduced you to a web site, the Godbolt compiler explorer, that allows the visitor to compile code using a slew of compilers and compare their output. We suspect some ...

The SunSpider JavaScript performance benchmark, devised by the developers of the WebKit browser engine, is used and quoted widely as a measure of browser scripting performance. A surprising result was ...

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 ...