On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 08:46:32 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 10:55 +0000, Paulo Pinto via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
I avoid touching Gradle.
Your loss!
For others: Gradle is becoming the de facto standard build
framework for
JVM-based things and also Android.
I will happily use it when it gets to the same execution speed
and hardware resources than Eclipse + ADT is currently using.
[…]
But the proof is Microsoft adding .NET Native to their
toolchain, Google replacing Dalvik with AOT and Oracle has
added AOT compilation (Substract) to Graal, the candidate to
Hotspot replacement.
Graal isn't a replacement for HotSpot but a dynamic compilation
technology to work with HotSpot. It is actually a very promising
technology, I am looking forward to trying it out.
Yes it is.
It was presented as such at JavaONE for possible future Java 9+
improvements.
I can try to dig out the presentation, if you wish.
[...]
Why is it one or the other? Having both AOT and JIT will likely
do even
better. Hence Graal on HotSpot.
I agree in the cases the toolchain offers both possibilities out
of the box and does not force developers to choose among
different vendors toolchains.
--
Paulo
