[LLVMdev] Proposal for a Google summer of code project for the Java frontend.

[Nicolas Geoffray]

OK, I didn't realize you were not one-JVM oriented. Sure, if the code 
can be shared between different instances of JVMs, that would be great! 
I actually had this in mind when I wrote the proposition :)

Ramón García wrote:
> The memory consumed by the code compiled is huge in server applications. And
> it is not shared by different virtual machine instances. By contrast,
> shared libraries
> are memory mapped, therefore they are shared between different instances of the
> executables using them. It is posible to throw away code after using
> it, but then
> compilation cost would be repeated.
>
> And dynamic compilation prevents expensive optimization techniques.
>
>   
>>  Can you tell me why dynamic compilation consumes memory? Except the fact
>>  that you need to embed a JIT in your VM, dynamic compilation should not
>>  consume that much memory. Once a method is compiled you can throw away
>>  the intermediate representation. Or are you talking about constrained
>>  devices where you do not want to embed a JIT?
>>     
>
> Ramon
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