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JIT vs AOT Compilation

Posted by michael on from the tastes-great-less-filling dept.

jg21 writes "This article on "Penguin-Driven" JVMs takes a look the performance of Java GUI applications based on the JFC/Swing API, and contends that the JIT-powered JVMs can't match a JVM with an ahead-of-time compiler ported to the Linux/x86 platform. With AOT compilation, says the CTO who has written this piece, real-world Swing applications performed perceivably faster. One is left wondering, will we now see the 'microbenchmark war' carried into the Linux camp?"

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  1. Re:What's the point in Java bytecode anyway? by p3d0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is parse trees. It's stack-based, which is pretty much just a post-order traversal of expression trees. Think of bytecode as a file format for describing expression trees.

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