Hacker News Reader

If you are talking about Java's AOT feature (JEP 295: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295) then I don't think it is true AFAICS. The JVM is still needed, Java-Code can be compiled into a shared library but this is "just" a code-cache that can be passed to the JVM when starting the application. This feature is mainly aimed for improving startup.

View on HN

I’ll link you the beautiful thing I’m referring to: https://github.com/graalvm/graal/tree/master/substratevm

Ah thanks, I got confused because you mentioned Java 9. I really hope Substrate VM or something similar gets into the JDK. Having the option of AOT-compilation or using jlink for bundling would be amazing.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com