> For starters, hotspot wasn't even a part of the JVM at that point.
HotSpot had been part of the JVM for five years at that point.
HotSpot had been part of the JVM for five years at that point.
That said, in the paper they didn't use sun's JVM they used gcj and their own modified version of gcj.
> We examined the performance of both our new Java implementation as well as standard gcj on a variety of Java applications.
So my point still stands, a lot as changed. The researches chose to use static compilation over a JIT or interpreter.