It seems the most beloved feature of GCJ was its ability to compile Java to native code. Is this something that could be implemented in the Java JDK / OpenJDK?

It seems the most beloved feature of GCJ was its ability to compile Java to native code. Is this something that could be implemented in the Java JDK / OpenJDK? Understandably a lot of work, but Oracle is looking at AOT now, for performance reasons. The performance improvements could be taken even further by something like this, Java to native code compilation.