HotSpot | just-in-time compilation | an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently | a constructor based on the number of the actual arguments and the types of the actual arguments | a program from hardware dependencies | Sun | Java programs more quickly | runtime system | to interpret bytecode and make the appropriate system-level calls to the native platform | An add-on performance module for the JavaTM 2 SDK | machine-specific | documentation at Sun | | How Java Works | Java VM | run-time error checking | Java Virtual Machine | hardware or software |