[pjmlp]

Well, OpenJDK is getting AOT compilation as well (planned for 9). In addition to JIT.

The SubstrateVM is the AOT compiler for Graal.

And many commercial JVMs do offer AOT compilation.

Also, .NET has had AOT/JIT since the very beginning. And now static compilation is coming as well.

[logicchains]

> Well, OpenJDK is getting AOT compilation as well (planned for 9). In addition to JIT.

On ARM? Last time I checked, OpenJDK doesn't even have JIT compilation on ARM, it just interprets the bytecode.

[pjmlp]

> On ARM?

Well, at least the closed source JDK has it. As many other commercial JVMs.

As for AOT, it was referenced at Java ONE, Java Language Summit and Øredev 2014.