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Hi,

not sure if this is the correct mailing list. I recently discovered
that LLVM also has a Java frontend to compile Java to native
code.

Where can I find more information about it?

Thanks,
Paulo

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Hi Paulo,

You can take a look at http://vmkit.llvm.org. It provides a JVM on top of LLVM to run Java applications. There is also (limited) support for ahead of time compilation that compiles Java code to native code.

Cheers,
Nicolas

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You can take a look at http://vmkit.llvm.org. It provides a JVM on top of LLVM
to run Java applications. There is also (limited) support for ahead of time
compilation that compiles Java code to native code.

Also dragonegg can compile Java. It doesn't output class constructors yet, so
the output won't actually work. I think Peter has a patch fixing that, so you
might want to ask him if you are interested.

Ciao, Duncan.

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Thanks all for the feedback.

I was asking because GCJ seems to be kind of dead nowadays, and while looking for
alternatives I discovered that LLVM also offers a similar AOT for Java to certain extent.

I’ll have a look around your links.

Thanks,
Paulo