Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

Research by Microsoft and Google shows that approximately 70% of all security vulnerabilities are caused by software bugs and vulnerabilities related to memory access, such as buffer overflows, out-of ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Structured concurrency, a new proposal incubating in the OpenJDK community, would treat multiple tasks running in different Java threads as a single unit of work. Multithreaded programming could be ...