Am 18.09.2013 23:33, schrieb Chris:
Seeing that more and more developers and companies look for or actively
develop native languages, I wonder will Java go native one day? (Cf.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97336_01/buslog.102/a83727/jtools5.htm)
Is this Java's only chance to keep up with Go and Rust (and D)?
Performance is an issue, no matter how fast your processor is, Java
always lags behind*. And the JVM installation horror is bad enough for
developers, but for users? Now Java apps are often shipped with a
version of the JRE included, which smells of defeat. If Oracle want to
save Java (after so many "unfortunate" decisions), will they finally go
native? I can see a market for that. There are still a lot of Java
developers out there, there are loads of Java apps, Java has GUI
libraries etc.
*Java's sluggish performance was what made me look for alternatives in
the first place, and I found D.
Java is already native, don't confuse languages with implementations.
Just because the reference implementation happens to be VM only, it does
not mean all Java vendors offer plain VMs.
Here are some native compilers for Java and JVMs that do AOT compilation
as option:
http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html
http://www.atego.com/products/aonix-perc/
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/real-time/
http://www.robovm.org/
http://jikesrvm.org/
http://www.aicas.com/sites/jamaica.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.java.doc.diagnostics.60%2Fdiag%2Fappendixes%2Fcmdline%2Fcommands_jit.html
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Paulo
