On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: | | | On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Sam Ruby wrote: | | > Craig R. McClanahan wrote: | > > | > > An additional note of interest to Ant developers - there is evidence that | > > running the compiler (either old or new) leaves a fair amount of cruft | > > lying around in static variables, after the compile has completed. The | > > recommended solution is to load the compiler itself in its own class | > > loader, so that you can throw it all away afterwards. That's the | > approach | > > we'll take when modifying Jasper. | > | > Would there be a value in a commons-javac? Several Apache projects seem to | > have need for this function... | > | | That would be an interesting approach, but also a non-trivial amount of | work. Any compiler hackers out there?
Isn't Jikes some kind of open source? Wouldn't it be possible to port that thing to Java? And wouldn't it run about 5-700 times faster than javac anyway then? (Now _that_ would be _really_ cool, ai?) -- Mvh, Endre
