Ahead of time compiler solutions

Wed Nov 13 13:01:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Laporte <plaporte@wgate.com> writes:

Philippe> If someone is a SUN source licensee, he can check out gcj
Philippe> code, or can't he?
I suppose, though he can't expect any help making the two work
together.
Philippe> Bring on the Kaffe JIT then. It has tons of ports, and a
Philippe> newest sexy one by a Stanford PhD, though I think it's for
Philippe> MIPS only as of now.
Could you describe the actual technology?
The last time I looked, the kaffe JIT was fairly primitive. Even the
new `jit3' I looked at recently also seemed pretty simple.
If you look at the performance page I posted, you'll see there is a
huge difference between the best JITs (IBM, HotSpot, ORP) and kaffe.
This is one of the reasons I'm not very interested in trying to
integrate kaffe.
If things have changed, I'd like to know about it. It's possible,
even likely, that I misunderstood the code I was looking at.
Tom