On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 22:24:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
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
I've heard of excelsior ($2,500+) and other implementations.
Sorry, I meant that it will be native as part of the Java SE
package, just as D ships with dmd.
