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Re: Compilation problem

To: jeg@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Compilation problem
From: Dean Johnson <dtj@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:23:47 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: mharrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jessie@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199909291222.MAA75821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "jeg@xxxxxxx" at "Sep 29, 99 07:22:10 am"
Sender: owner-jessie@xxxxxxxxxxx
jeg@xxxxxxx spontaneously blurts out:
> > 
> > Okay, thanks.  I'm glad it's not just me.  Jikes is an IBM product, right?
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> Yes jikes is an IBM problem.  It really speeds up the compilation
> process.
> 

What Jim meant to say is "IBM program", not "IBM problem". Freudian slip,
I think not. Jikes is, in practice, 20-40 times faster than javac. It
totally blew us away when we first used it and it has proven to be very
stable. The source is, of course, available for building on any system.

        -Dean Johnson
         Tool Hooligan
         Jessie Project
         Silicon Graphics Inc.    Eagan,MN      (651) 683-5880

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