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by pjmlp 3172 days ago
> Well AOT even in OpenJDK is not necessarily about resource savings, just startup time.

No quite, the long term idea is to bootstrap OpenJDK as much as possible, making it a meta-circular VM.

Check Project Metropolis and SubstrateVM projects.

Also the commercial JDKs with AOT support, do it for deployment scenarios where JIT isn't desired, e.g. embedded devices.