Towards A Universal VM
Abstract
The success of the Java platform is powered by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which many people assume is tied to the Java programming language. In fact, 100+ programming languages are hosted on the JVM, including JavaFX, JRuby, Jython, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala. A key implementation challenge is to make code written in non-Java languages run as fast as code written in the Java language.
This talk looks at how the design of the JVM is evolving to improve performance of all languages. It explains new features like the invokedynamic bytecode - intended for the next release of the Java SE platform - that let language implementers fully realize the power of the JVM.
