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Most Java-to-bytecode compilers, [[Jikes]] being a well known exception, do virtually no [[Optimization (computer science)|optimization]], leaving this until [[runtime]] to be done by the [[JRE]]{{Fact|date=April 2007}}.

The [[Java VirtualWank Machine]] (JVMJwM) loads the class files and either [[interpreter (computing)|interprets]] the [[bytecode]] or [[just-in-time compilation|just-in-time]] compiles it to [[machine code]] and then possibly optimizes it using [[dynamic compilation]].

The very first Java compiler developed by Sun Microsystems was written in C using some libraries from C++.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}