This may prove to be an easy way to benchmark native code performance against the JVM. I wonder if longer term it could be used as a way to compile native C in

This may prove to be an easy way to benchmark native code performance against the JVM. I wonder if longer term it could be used as a way to compile native C into something that could execute in a JVM. Giving the JVM access to the wealth of existing libraries without having to write native wrappers.