Why didn't Jikes take off?

Why didn't Jikes take off?

Posted Mar 3, 2005 9:47 UTC (Thu) by pkolloch (subscriber, #21709)
In reply to: Why didn't Jikes take off? by bronson
Parent article: IBM's latest gift to the community

and there are already pretty good alternatives (for example the compiler included in eclipse). Jikes was written for compilation performance, but a month ago I tested a recent release and I was not impressed (it even crashed reproducably when the dependency feature was enabled). I remember a time when jikes was just a lot faster than the Sun JDK compiler.

What is missing for open source java are mostly libarary issues and to some degree better VMs.

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