another compiler better than gcj ?

Sun Oct 21 18:00:00 GMT 2001

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Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> magnus persson wrote:
>> >check out this compiler:
> >
> > http://www.cs.vu.nl/manta/
> >
> >it is for java, parallell execution on several nodes, has awt and many libraries. It seems very fast...
> >
>> I had a play with this today. I was impressed. It didn't manage to correctly
> run all the benchmarks I tried, but for those that did work it generated some
> very slick code, blowing away both GCJ and the IBM JDK at nearly everything I
> tried (mostly numerical tests), except for Hans's GCTest.
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Hm. How long has this project been around for?
I sent an e-mail to the authors (5 of them) asking for mailing lists and CVS
access and I still haven't heard back from them.
Kevin
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