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>There is even a paper from Sun Research about writing Solaris drivers in Java, but instead of compiling AOT to native code, they ported the JVM into kernel spa
by vram22 9y ago
>There is even a paper from Sun Research about writing Solaris drivers in Java, but instead of compiling AOT to native code, they ported the JVM into kernel space.
Interesting. Intuitively, does not seem like such a good idea. On the other hand, there was (and I think still is) this company called Esmertec that was doing embedded Java stuff (from around 2001). And IIRC there was Jikes, which I think was a compiler for Java from IBM. Also saw your comment below about third-party JDKS with AOT compilation.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe most well known companies selling JDKs with support for AOT compilation, are PTC (former Aonix), Aicas, ExcelsiorJET, IBM. There are probably others in the embedded space, as Java is actually gaining some traction to more classical approaches. And of course, there is also Android with ART. This was the paper I was referring to, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1698145 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1698145
- vram22 9y agoCool, thanks.