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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:44:24 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Jikes (java source -> byte code compiler) released in open-source form
Message-ID:  <199812100444.VAA20914@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812091458540.329-100000@picnic.mat.net>
References:  <199812091934.LAA46855@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812091458540.329-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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> >     The thing compiles using, in jikesos/jikes/src/Makefile as shown below.
> >     It works!  I'm impressed!
> 
> Can you be a little more detailed about the environment of your test
> app?  JDK?.?   ?  Any JFC in the app?  I'm really curious.

Jikes works fine.  I haven't stress tested it completely on my (fairly
complex) JFC applications, but it appears to work fine.  However, I
should note that the Linux jikes binary is still faster than the FreeBSD
native binary I compiled.

(In case you weren't aware, Jikes is a replacement for javac, and only
javac.  No VM, but the compiler is at least 10X faster than javac).

Some things to note.  Applets compiled with jikes don't always work the
same as applets compiled with javac.  Some people have reported that
jikes compiled applets won't pass the byte-code verifier test in certain
browsers, but this was with older versions of Jikes.  Newer versions of
jikes are supposed to have fixed it, but the reporters haven't updated
to test this yet.  (This from another mailing list I'm on.)


Nate

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