Jikes

Description

Jikes is an open source, strictly Java compatible, high performance compiler written in C++ that manages to put out code that is considerably faster than javac. Note that it compiles to Java bytecode rather than to machine language.

Version

• Latest Version: 1.22-1 (2005/02/18) - Should compile on OS/2 with John Price's header files.
• Latest Version for OS/2: 1.18 (2003/03/13) Hobbes

Links

• Official Website: [1]
• John Price's Jikes page

Publications

• Bobby Wolf: J2SE: Jikes -- A Better Java Compiler -

License

• Open Source - IBM Public License

Author

• IBM
• Ported by John Price (Original OS/2 port)
• Ported by Vadim Yegorov (Current maintainer)