[LLVMdev] State of the Java frontend

[Paulo Pinto]

Thanks all for the feedback.

I was asking because GCJ seems to be kind of dead nowadays, and while
looking for
alternatives I discovered that LLVM also offers a similar AOT for Java to
certain extent.

I'll have a look around your links.

Thanks,
Paulo

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:

> > You can take a look at http://vmkit.llvm.org. It provides a JVM on top
> of LLVM
> > to run Java applications. There is also (limited) support for ahead of
> time
> > compilation that compiles Java code to native code.
>
> Also dragonegg can compile Java.  It doesn't output class constructors yet,
> so
> the output won't actually work.  I think Peter has a patch fixing that, so
> you
> might want to ask him if you are interested.
>
> Ciao, Duncan.
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