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Subject: Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD
To: vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:27:55 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990124230049.vev@michvhf.com> from "Vince Vielhaber" at Jan 24, 99 11:00:49 pm
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> 
> 
> On 25-Jan-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > 
> > It would be nice if TowerJ was available for FreeBSD for commercial 
> > entities to exploit. It seems to me that this small item is orthogonal
> > to whatever engineering efforts are currently active in the Java VM front.
> > 
> > I do believe that we have large ISPs which perhaps can benefit from
> > products such as TowerJ . 
> 
> Dumb question.   What is TowerJ?   I showed up at this one a bit late.
> 

It's what you call a WAT (way-ahead-of-time) compiler these days.
Basically, it's traditional compiler that translates Java code (source or
bytecode, I forgot which)  to native code.  And it's fast.

A similar compiler, gcj, is being worked on by Cygnus as part of the egcs 
effort.

	- Godmar



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