Truely excellant news! I've been using jikes for a while now and have
been very impressed by its speed (even when the incremental compile
option was disabled), but have been worried that IBM might decide to
junk it, sell it for huge amounts of money, etc. Now with this
annnouncement, jikes is definitely worth a look for anyone doing java
development.
(Dare I say it... Hooray for IBM :-)
Maksim.
Nelson Minar wrote:
>
> I'm happy to spread the news that IBM has released Jikes as open
> source. We Java/Linux folks have been happy to have Jikes as a fast,
> correct drop-in for javac under Linux. Now, IBM and the Jikes team
> have released the sources to Jikes as well, allowing us to look at and
> improve the compiler.
>
> The slashdot story is at
> http://slashdot.org/articles/98/12/05/1216225.shtml
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/
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