Java compilation [was GCs in the news]

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 08:46:32 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 10:55 +0000, Paulo Pinto via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> 
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>> I avoid touching Gradle.
>
> Your loss!
>
> For others: Gradle is becoming the de facto standard build 
> framework for
> JVM-based things and also Android.

I will happily use it when it gets to the same execution speed 
and hardware resources than Eclipse +  ADT is currently using.

>
> […]
>> 
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>> But the proof is Microsoft adding .NET Native to their 
>> toolchain, Google replacing Dalvik with AOT and Oracle has 
>> added AOT compilation (Substract) to Graal, the candidate to 
>> Hotspot replacement.
>
> Graal isn't a replacement for HotSpot but a dynamic compilation
> technology to work with HotSpot. It is actually a very promising
> technology, I am looking forward to trying it out.

Yes it is.

It was presented as such at JavaONE for possible future Java 9+ 
improvements.

I can try to dig out the presentation, if you wish.


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>[...]
>
> Why is it one or the other? Having both AOT and JIT will likely 
> do even
> better. Hence Graal on HotSpot.
>

I agree in the cases the toolchain offers both possibilities out 
of the box and does not force developers to choose among 
different vendors toolchains.

--
Paulo