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Re: Ahead of time compiler solutions
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
Philippe> I am currently investigating precompiling the core class
Philippe> libraries to native for the (God forbid) SUN JDK.
You won't be able to do this. gcj doesn't, and probably can't,
interoperate with the JDK.
Philippe> How hard would it be to have gcj generate code for the SUN VM 1.4.1?
From very difficult to impossible.
I'm just very curious here, what's so special about Kaffe that it can
interface with GCJ, but the SUN JVM can't?
Philippe> when I was at Transvirtual. BTW, has GCJ subsumed Kaffe and
Philippe> Classpath yet?
No. libgcj and Classpath have merged code bases, more or less. They
share a lot of code, and this amount generally increases over time.
gcj will probably never subsume kaffe for licensing reasons.
Eventually we hope somebody will write a JIT for libgcj. Meanwhile we
limp along with our interpreter.
What is the one JIT project that is closest to meeting the integration
requirements, and what's still missing?
Best Regards,
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Philippe Laporte
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