Will Java go native?

[Thiez]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 10:41:39 UTC, Bruno Medeiros 
wrote:
> Even without seeing that article, I can well believe it. It 
> seems they shun away completely from compile-time 
> optimizations, and not much reasoning is given to that. It 
> seems almost a purely political/marketing move: like if they 
> want to push the mantra that JITing is the be all and end all 
> of compiler optimization, and doing any kind of compile-time 
> optimization would be admitting that compile-time is also 
> important (and somehow making Java more prone to direct 
> performance comparisons to other languages/platforms?)

Perhaps you're being a little paranoid. I think they don't want 
to do optimization in the compiler because this would remove the 
incentive/pressure to implement those optimizations in the JVM, 
which is bad for all other languages/compilers that target the 
JVM. For the JVM-ecosystem it is best if as many optimizations 
possible are implemented in the JVM.

If you look at existing benchmarks Java is comparable to many 
other languages/platforms with regard to performance.