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Really? Reading the document I felt AOT was too much pain for too little gain. This might benefit IDEs with slightly less startup time but with SSDs even that'
by blinkingled 9y ago
Really? Reading the document I felt AOT was too much pain for too little gain.
This might benefit IDEs with slightly less startup time but with SSDs even that's questionable. And who besides IDE authors is writing desktop apps in Java anyways?
- praseodym 9y agoIt might also be useful for scripts and small CLI utilities where interactive invocation is a lot nicer with short startup times.
- shock 9y agoI'd write desktop apps in Java if AOT was available. I'd much prefer Java with JavaFX/Swing/SWT to C++ with QT for cross platform desktop apps. Maybe we'd see Java used for cross platform desktop apps more, instead of the usual Electron app.
- jcdavis 9y agoThe main benefactor of AOT will be the JVM itself - part of the reason for its sluggish startup time is having to interpret and then JIT a bunch of core libraries.