Java Bytecode

A Java Bytecode is a Java Virtual Machine that ...

• See: Java Virtual Machine, Bytecode, Opcode, Sun Microsystems, Java Platform.

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References

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/java_bytecode Retrieved:2013-12-13.
  • Java bytecode is the form of instructions that the Java virtual machine executes. Each bytecode opcode is one byte in length, although some require parameters, resulting in some multi-byte instructions. Not all of the possible 256 opcodes are used. 51 are reserved for future use. Beyond that, Sun Microsystems, the original developer of the Java platform, had set aside three values to be permanently unimplemented.

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