Friday, 10 June 2016 15:00 @ Room 3
Ahead-of-time (AOT) native compilation has been available for .NET for quite some time, whereas Java SE, while being older than .NET, still does not have a standard AOT compiler. Some people ask why, some people think that it could only work for certain limited types of Java applications, some people think that it is not needed.
The truth, however, is that a Java AOT compiler has been available for over a decade, as part of a compliant Java SE implementation called Excelsior JET, and it proved to be useful for many organizations around the world. In this session, I would like to dispel the common myths about Java AOT compilation and show where it has advantages over JIT compilation from the technical point of view.