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Eclipse Now Runs On Jikes Research Virtual Machine

Posted by timothy on from the joiks dept.

jscribner writes "IBM reached another key milestone in open source: Eclipse, a completely open source platform, now runs on the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM) improving its teaching/research potential because it provides the community with a significant open source Java benchmark that runs on top of a flexible open testbed (Jikes RVM). The testbed runs on Linux and uses the GNU Classpath implementation of Java libraries (read: complete open source solution). Although Jikes RVM was developed by IBM researchers at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, it was donated to the community in October 2001 and now has a steering committee and core team that include both IBMers and other university researchers."

3 of 20 comments (clear)

  1. Does anyone care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't mean to offend, but the fact that after 20 minutes there's not even a FP here seems a little odd.

  2. What makes this VM different is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    - it's 99% written in Java itself (not C).
    - it uses a modified reference counting scheme for garbage collection.

  3. Eclipse without VM - gcj news last month by okock · · Score: 3, Interesting

    More options came in August, when the gcj team announced to compile/run eclipse natively without a vm and much better startup time.

    Olaf