Matt Welsh wrote: > > I am happy to announce the release of Jaguar v2.0, a system enabling > high-performance communication and I/O from Java. > > It is available from: > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/jaguar > > This release is targeted at Linux x86 systems, however, it should be > portable to other platforms. The software is entirely Open Source. > > Jaguar is an extension of the Java runtime environment which enables direct > Java access to operating system and hardware resources, such as fast network > interfaces, memory-mapped and programmed I/O, and specialized machine > instruction sets. Jaguar can be thought of as a replacement for the Java > Native Interface. Unlike the JNI, however, Jaguar does not require copying > of data between the JVM and C code, nor expensive traversals between the > Java and native code contexts. Rather, Jaguar relies upon a flexible > bytecode translation technique which directly inlines specialized "driver" > code to access low-level system resources from Java while maintaining type > safety. This translation can be performed by a JIT compiler or a static > ("ahead of time") compiler. > > Jaguar v2.0 is implemented as a Java-based "front-end" compiler which > translates Java bytecode to "Jaguar bytecode", identical to Java bytecode > except for several additional instructions required to perform direct > memory access. Only Jaguar driver code (which is inlined in with application > code during the translation step from Java to Jaguar bytecode) may make use > of these instructions. The Jaguar "back-end" compiler, an extension of > GCJ (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java), translates the generated Jaguar > bytecode to machine code for execution. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or comments! > > Matt Welsh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UC Berkeley Computer Science Division > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kevin A Burton http://relativity.yi.org Linux - The revolution will NOT be televised -- ---------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
