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> There was GCJ that used to do this for Java. Sadly it has been discontinued.

There are lots of other AOT compilers for Java available.

> It is interesting how every old is new again, we went from AOT to JIT and Back to AOT again.

Yep, we already went through this as everyone founded out P-Code wasn't fast enough. Then Anders Hejlsberg created Turbo Pascal.