Yes, the tool is called TowerJ, from Tower Technology
(http://www.twr.com/). TowerJ-compiled Java is faster than *any* JIT on
*any* platform (as you might expect). Currently, this group has only
ported TowerJ to HP's *nix and Linux (I just checked their homepage, and
found out that they have ported it to Digital Unix for Alpha, as well!).
Cygnus (I think) is also creating a front end to egcs (where new code is
alpha/beta tested for gcc). This project is called gc1, I think. It is
mentioned in the latest issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. The benefit is
that this project will capitalize on gcc's well-tested and robust
optimization stages, as well as the diverse number of platforms under
which gcc runs. My understanding of this project is that it is not yet
finished, and may not be finished for a while. However, my sources for
this understanding are dubious at best.
Eugene Teh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep hearing people telling me that you can do this
> But I have never found info about how to do this?
> Is there such a utility - AFAIK Sun does not provide one?
> Also what's the performance issue? How can it be tuned?
>
> Eugene Teh
> Berkeley, CA
>
