So sorry to be so far off-topic on this, but for those who emailed me as a
result of an aside concerning fully compiled Java in an earlier posting, I
know of only one vendor, Diab Data, whose offering is called FastJ. It is
meant for use in embedded systems, and currently supports PowerPC�,
M�CORE�, ColdFire�, and 68K/CPU32 processors (i.e., no x86, SPARC, Alpha,
etc., so I guess that except maybe for Mac, you can probably forget about
the big desktop OS's). For info, see
http://www.ddi.com/products/fastjdescription.htm
For speed on desktops, check out JIT compilers and the speed-enhancing
mod's to 2.0. I also recently caught a developer's reference to a full
compiler claiming 40x speed improvements on desktop's, but I do not
remember the details.
David Janszen
At 09:34 AM 6/15/99 +1000, you wrote:
>hello
>
>i read in your email that you compile Java to object code, something that
I'd like
>to do as well. i can't be bothered sitting around watching the JVM churn
on NT
>when I could have just compiled it to native in the first place - like you
said,
>"write once, run anywhere" is not actually really that special because it
doesn't
>work properly anyway. can you tell me what environment you use to compile
java to
>object code? does it compile java 2?
>
>thanks
>
>Simon
>
