[MUD-Dev] Metroworks JIT for Linux

[J C Lawrence]

http://www.internetwire.com/technews/tn/tn980967.htx

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09/25/98 -- AUSTIN, TX, -- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF,
TSE/ME:MWK) announces today that it will license its Java
Acceleration Technology for PowerPC(tm) to the Linux
community. Metrowerks' Java technology, a Just-in-Time (JIT)
compiler, will be provided to Linux users under a free
non-commercial license similar to that used by Sun's Java
Development Source code.

Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Java acceleration technology provides a
drop-in, JIT compiler for the LinuxPPC and MkLinux ported Java
Development Kit (JDK). The CodeWarrior JIT compiler increases the
performance of Sun's JDK by a factor of five to ten on most
machines, by efficiently compiling the Java byte-codes into machine
code for a particular CPU at run-time.

Linux users may port Metrowerks' JIT compiler to run on x86, Alpha
and Sparc and other UNIX platforms that do not currently have access
to a commercial quality JIT compiler. The Blackdown JDK porters, an
organized group of volunteers porting Sun's JDK to Linux, have
already agreed to help port this JIT to other versions of Linux and
make those ports freely available in binary code.


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