With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

For most Groovy scripts I use, I simply run the script from its Groovy source code as-is and allow the compilation to take place implicitly. However, it can be helpful at times to use groovyc to ...