Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:27:55 -0700 (MST) From: Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> To: vev@michvhf.com (Vince Vielhaber) Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199901250427.VAA06493@lal.cs.utah.edu> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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