I've been hearing about the Cygnus project for ages, nice to see that its finally coming along. There are quite a few native compiler products for Java, but none that are open source. TowerJ (www.towerj.com) is available for linux, and compiles Java 1.1 non AWT apps using GCC. I believe it did very well in the recent VolanoMark benchmarks.
However, more exciting is the research into VMs going on at various places including IBM. Many people are predicting that dynamic compilation will soon eclipse static compilating in terms of tuning for actual use.
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I've been hearing about the Cygnus project for ages, nice to see that its finally coming along. There are quite a few native compiler products for Java, but none that are open source. TowerJ (www.towerj.com) is available for linux, and compiles Java 1.1 non AWT apps using GCC. I believe it did very well in the recent VolanoMark benchmarks.
However, more exciting is the research into VMs going on at various places including IBM. Many people are predicting that dynamic compilation will soon eclipse static compilating in terms of tuning for actual use.