Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

In May, Sun announced the availability of JavaFX Script, a highly expressive language for developing portable rich interactive media applications. JavaFX script has some nice syntactic features like ...

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 ...