Ahead of time compiler solutions

Wed Nov 13 12:28:00 GMT 2002

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?
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