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The OpenJIT project is an ongoing Java the programming language JIT
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compiler project as a collaborative effort between Tokyo Institute of Technology
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and Fujitsu Laboratory, partly sponsored by the Information Promotion Agency of
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Japan.
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OpenJIT is a "reflective" JIT compiler in that not only it is almost
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entirely written in Java, but also that it bootstraps and compiles itself during
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execution of the user program, and compiler components coexist as first-class
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objects in user heap space. Thus, users can tailor and customize the compilation
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of classes at runtime for variety of purposes such as application-specific
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optimization and partial evaluation, dynamic, compiler-assisted environment
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adaptation of programs, debugging, language extension and experimentation, and
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other types of advanced compiler-based research and applications. OpenJIT even
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allows full dynamic update of itself by loading the compiler classes on the fly
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from the network.
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OpenJIT is fully JDK compliant, and plugs into standard JVMs several
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Unix platforms such as Solaris (Sparc), Linux (x86), and FreeBSD (x86).
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On Linux/x86 platform, OpenJIT 1.1.14 is faster than the JDK 1.2 classic
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VM compiler, runs more or less the same speed as other commercial JIT compilers
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on classic VM.
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OpenJIT is completely free so long as it is used for non-commercial
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purposes. Its source, binaries, etc. can be freely distributed and modified
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without restriction.
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WWW: http://www.openjit.org/
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