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by fourseventy 1575 days ago
99% of people run Java on the JVM. Just because you 'can' compile java to native code doesn't mean it really applies in real world situations. Plus as far as I can tell the only compiler that can compile Java to native code (GCJ) is no longer maintained.
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PTC, Aicas, WebSphere Real Time, GraalVM, OpenJ9.

Additionally, JIT caches are now part of OpenJDK, OpenJ9 and ART.

Nowadays people use GraalVM Native image for AOT compilation.