Charles Nutter 's "JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)" was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite ...

A developer claims that Java 7's new bytecode verifier slows performance and increases coding effort, potentially affecting the entire Java ecosystem.

Not anymore. Last year, [Michael] wrote Java Grinder, a Java byte-code compiler that compiles classes into assembly language instead of being part of a JVM.

Here we examine not only the motivation for Java's platform independence, but how the JVM and bytecode make Java's cross-platform capabilities possible.