On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 09:30:21 UTC, Dmitry Leskov
wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 22:33:46 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 22:24:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html
I've heard of excelsior ($2,500+) and other implementations.
Excelsior guy here with a quick comment:
For many of our users, if not for most of them, the potential
performance gain from AOT compilation is just a "nice-to-have".
Their main concern these days is the ease of decompiling Java
bytecode compared to reverse engineering optimized native code
binaries:
http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-obfuscators.html
As far as the price tag is concerned, we have free licenses
available for non-commercial use and discount programs for
early stage startups and small businesses.
--
Dmitry
Yes, the whole issue of decompilation was also an issue. Funnily
enough, a few years ago I wrote an email to Excelsior asking if
you guys offer a discount for academia. Our project would have
qualified as "non-commercial use". But I never got an answer. So
I started looking for alternatives, and here I am now :-)
