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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



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