The Arizona Commerce Authority has just announced that Dataware Ventures is one of the 25 semi-finalists for the Fall 2015 Arizona Innovation Challenge, and one of only two from Tucson. For more details and a listing of all 25 semi-finalists, please see: http://www.azcommerce.com/news-events/press-releases/arizona-commerce-authority-announces-semifinalists-in-the-fall-2015-arizona-innovation-challenge

In an earlier blog post, we discussed how field specialization creates optimized code at DBMS runtime. There is another widely used technology, Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation, that also performs code optimization at runtime. This blog entry looks at how these two approaches to runtime optimization resemble, and differ from, each other. JIT compilers are used alongside interpreters, for languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python, to speed up interpreted byte code. The prim