Avian

A lightweight alternative to Java programming language.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Joel Dice
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/

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Avian Description

A lightweight alternative to Java programming language. Avian is a lightweight alternative to Java programming language. Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library designed to provide a useful subset of Java's features, suitable for building self-contained applications. Efficient The VM is implemented from scratch and designed to be both fast and small. · Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for fast method execution · Generational, copying garbage collection ensures short pause times and good spatial locality · Thread-local heaps provide O(1) memory allocation with no synchronization overhead · Null pointer dereferences are handled via OS signals to avoid unecessary branches The class library is designed to be as loosely-coupled as possible, allowing tools like ProGuard to aggressively isolate the minimum code needed for an application. This translates to smaller downloads and faster startup. Portable Platform-specific code is hidden behind a generic interface, so adding support for new OSes is easy. Avian currently supports Linux (i386 and x86_64), Windows (i386), and OS X (i386), with more to come. The only third-party dependency beyond OS-provided libraries is zlib, which is itself very portable. Although the VM is written in C++, it does not depend on the C++ standard library, and is thus robust in the face of ABI changes. Embeddable Not only can applications embed the VM, but the VM itself supports class and resource loading from embedded jar files. This means you can produce a single executable containing your entire application, thus simplifying the installation process. Quick Start: $ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java # or wherever you have Java installed $ make $ build/linux-i386-compile-fast/avian -cp build/test Hello Requirements: · GCC · Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment · binutils · zlib · GNU make


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