ikvm! ... *facepalm* I'm glad someone else got it, I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of that project...
On 1 September 2010 15:51, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 1, 3:30 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Give the existence of mono, it might be argued that all of these benefits > > are available on the .NET VM. > > Although last I heard, JVM was still outperforming in benchmarks. > > Yup, Mono has no trouble running Java code thanks to iKVM. > > cas...@workstation:~$ javac hello.java > cas...@workstation:~$ java hello > Hello World! > cas...@workstation:~$ ikvm hello > Hello World! > > It has the added benefits that you can inter-operate with .NET > libraries, or compile AOT and target politically- or resource- > constrained devices: > > cas...@workstation:~$ ikvmc hello.class > Note IKVMC0001: found main method in class "hello" > Note IKVMC0002: output file is "hello.exe" > cas...@workstation:~$ mono hello.exe > Hello World! > > They are taking huge advantage of this for the MonoTouch and MonoDroid > stacks. Garbage collector and JIT still inferior to the JVM, but has > other advantages such as SIMD support, generics code sharing (all > instantiations for reference types share the same native code) etc. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] nexus: kev.lee.wright skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
