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Why not compile java into object code?
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
[snip]
> >On a similar level, is this what JIT compilers do?
>
> Nope. JIT compilers take actual Java source and make it into bytecode. In
> other words, you don't have to compile your Java if you use a JIT compiler,
> because the JIT compiler does it for you. Excellent during development. Not
> so excellent in distribution.
Not quite true, Ben is on the right track. The JIT compiler is usually
part of the JVM, and thus not a separate compiler in its own right, and
yes, it translates Java bytecodes into native instructions for the
architecture it is running on. However, it tends to do this at on a
per-method basis (that is, at run-time), which may mean you will
experience a slow-down the first time you run a particular Java method.
I dug up a little URL to let you read for yourself
<URL:http://www.sun.com/solaris/jit/>.
-- Niklas Elmqvist (d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se) ----------------------
"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you
could do is give them a meaningful look."
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Thread context:
- [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Cynbe ru Taren cynbe#muq,org, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 04:58 GMT
- Tutorial: Let's build a Compiler! - Part II: Expression Parsing,
Jon A. Lambert Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 03:42 GMT
- Why not compile java into object code?,
Ben Greear greear#cyberhighway,net, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 04:19 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock caliban#darklock,com, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 05:09 GMT
- Why not compile java into object code?,
Niklas Elmqvist d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 06:05 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Nathan F Yospe yospe#hawaii,edu, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 08:22 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Ben Greear greear#cyberhighway,net, Sat 28 Feb 1998, 00:39 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Jon A. Lambert Jon.A.Lambert#ix,netcom.com, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 06:16 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?,
Travis Casey efindel#polaris,net, Fri 27 Feb 1998, 12:19 GMT
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