In order to run Java applications, the JVM depends on the Java class loader and a Java execution engine. Everything in Java is a class, and all Java applications are built from classes.

Velox is first an execution engine with velocity, and that has meant rewriting an execution engine in C++ instead of Java and some other interpreted, high level programming language such as Java, ...

The licensed RISC core contains ARM's Jazelle technology, which accelerates Java execution by up to eight times compared to mobile systems using software-only execution of programs, according to ARM.