| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Gary Benson |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Sunday |
| Room | AW1.125 |
| Start time | 15:15 |
| End time | 15:30 |
| Duration | 00:15 |
| Info | |
| Event type | Podium |
| Track | Free Java |
| Language | English |
Zero/Shark
OpenJDK only supports three processors, x86, x86-64 and SPARC, but Linux distributions typically support many more. Zero is an interpreter-only port of OpenJDK that uses no assembler and therefore can trivially be built on any Linux system.
This talk will be about developments since the last FOSDEM.
The build system has been improved to the point that building is as simple as "./configure && make"; many new platforms have been tried and tested; and a platform-independent JIT called Shark has been developed that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure to JIT compile Java methods without introducing system-specific code.