HotSpot (old wiki)

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The engine powering Sun's Java VMs from JDK/JRE 1.3 upwards (also available as an add-on to 1.2).

Some highlights: interpreter/compiler hybrid; dynamic, very aggressive optimization; rich choice of garbage collection algorithms; full-speed debugging.