Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: ARM | Subject: Jazelle RCT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 June 2005
Architecture extension cuts Java code
down to size
Jazelle RCT technology aims to dramatically reduce application memory footprint while increasing performance and saving power in a wide range of mobile applications.
ARM launched its new Jazelle RCT technology at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to dramatically reduce application memory footprint while increasing performance and saving power in a wide range of applications including mobile phones and consumer devices The ARM Jazelle RCT (runtime compiler target) architecture extension expands the Jazelle technology portfolio to include optimisations for runtime and ahead of time compiler technologies, such as just in time (JIT) and dynamic adaptive compilation (DAC), providing support for all the leading Java technology and other execution environments
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Anything that reduces the size of statically compiled Java bytecode will be welcomed by independent software vendors and embedded-system developers", said Tom R Halfhill, Senior Analyst for In-Stat's Microprocessor Report.
"The ARM Jazelle RCT will enable Java developers to get higher performance without the code bloat usually associated with static compilation".