just an idea for (Java) native compilation

[dominique.devito@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

This is just an idea for (Java) native compilation.

INRIA has an outstanding knowledge about native compiler technology. To be 
more precise, INRIA has developped a native compiler for the "Objective Caml" 
language. Caml is a strongly-typed functional programming language from the 
ML family. OCaml (Objective Caml) and Caml Light are two open source 
implementations of Caml developed at INRIA Rocquencourt, projet Cristal. See 
<http://caml.inria.fr/> and <http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/>.

INRIA has started at January 2001 the Caml consortium (like the ObjectWeb 
consortium) : the Caml consortium federates the design and development of the 
Caml language and its programming environment. The Objective Caml (OCaml) 
compiler is released by the Caml Consortium and performs very well : 
Objective Caml ranks 2nd on speed (between C and C++) on Doug Bagley's 
computer language shootout ! See <http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/>.

So, why not joining Caml & ObjectWeb consortiums strengths for developping a 
Java compiler ? One way could/would be to develop a bridge Java->OCaml as 
OCaml's object-oriented features are similar to Java's object-oriented 
features (Ocaml also includes functional features, module features...).

What do you think about this idea ? Silly idea :-) ? Good idea ?

Best regards,
Dominique