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diff --git a/java/openjit/pkg-descr b/java/openjit/pkg-descr index 482a2e829744..d7c8ea7304f1 100644 --- a/java/openjit/pkg-descr +++ b/java/openjit/pkg-descr @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ -The OpenJIT project is an ongoing Java the programming language JIT compiler -project as a collaborative effort between Tokyo Institute of Technology and -Fujitsu Laboratory, partly sponsored by the Information Promotion Agency of + The OpenJIT project is an ongoing Java the programming language JIT +compiler project as a collaborative effort between Tokyo Institute of Technology +and Fujitsu Laboratory, partly sponsored by the Information Promotion Agency of Japan. - -OpenJIT is a "reflective" JIT compiler in that not only it is almost entirely -written in Java, but also that it bootstraps and compiles itself during + OpenJIT is a "reflective" JIT compiler in that not only it is almost +entirely written in Java, but also that it bootstraps and compiles itself during execution of the user program, and compiler components coexist as first-class objects in user heap space. Thus, users can tailor and customize the compilation of classes at runtime for variety of purposes such as application-specific @@ -13,16 +12,13 @@ adaptation of programs, debugging, language extension and experimentation, and other types of advanced compiler-based research and applications. OpenJIT even allows full dynamic update of itself by loading the compiler classes on the fly from the network. - -OpenJIT is fully JDK compliant, and plugs into standard JVMs several Unix -platforms such as Solaris (Sparc), Linux (x86), and FreeBSD (x86). - -On Linux/x86 platform, OpenJIT 1.1.14 is faster than the JDK 1.2 classic VM -compiler, runs more or less the same speed as other commercial JIT compilers on -classic VM. - -OpenJIT is completely free so long as it is used for non-commercial purposes. -Its source, binaries, etc. can be freely distributed and modified without -restriction. + OpenJIT is fully JDK compliant, and plugs into standard JVMs several +Unix platforms such as Solaris (Sparc), Linux (x86), and FreeBSD (x86). + On Linux/x86 platform, OpenJIT 1.1.14 is faster than the JDK 1.2 classic +VM compiler, runs more or less the same speed as other commercial JIT compilers +on classic VM. + OpenJIT is completely free so long as it is used for non-commercial +purposes. Its source, binaries, etc. can be freely distributed and modified +without restriction. WWW: http://www.openjit.org/ |