Project Leyden set to bring faster startups to Java

A simmering proposal to address Java pain points, including slow startup, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint, is now moving forward.Project Leyden, under discussion for more than two years, will address these pain points by introducing static images to the JDK and…

9 nifty libraries for profiling Python code

Every programming language has two kinds of speed: speed of development, and speed of execution. Python has always favored writing fast versus running fast. Although Python code is almost always fast enough for the task, sometimes it isn’t. In those cases, you need to…

Project Leyden gets the green light

A simmering proposal to address Java pain points, including slow startup, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint, is now moving forward.Project Leyden, under discussion for more than two years, will address these pain points by introducing static images to the JDK and…