I've created once custom barebone JavaVM with binary size of around 100k. It was made as an executable jsmile.exe that was capable to read bytecodes cat'ed to t

I've created once custom barebone JavaVM with binary size of around 100k. It was made as an executable jsmile.exe that was capable to read bytecodes cat'ed to the executable itself : http://www.terrainformatica.com/org/j-smile/index.htm http://www.terrainformatica.com/org/j-smile/index.htm The goal was to create JVM suitable for standalone GUI applications. Project was abandoned when Sun/MS Java wars started in favor of the Sciter (https://sciter.com https://sciter.com). As of NativeScala ... I think that approach (binary with nano JVM + attached class files) may work better and with less effort. Scala needs JVM infrastructure, GC, etc. as far as I understand.