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In comp.lang.java.advocacy Jonathan Revusky <jrevusky@bigfoot.com> wrote:

: 2. The SmartJ Java class launcher, a drop-in replacement for java.exe
: that is much easier to use for normal people.

: These are both marginally updated, though I intend to do some more work
: on them over the next couple of months, since I am currently between
: projects. At any rate, I have heard people mention that SmartJ does not
: work with Java 2 etcetera. That was not quite true. I think it didn't
: work with JDK 1.3 or hotspot or some kind of combination thereof. Over
: the last couple of days, I have done enough incremental hacking to get
: SmartJ working across the board again. [...]

: http://www.bigfoot.com/~jrevusky

I was one of those who had found that older versions did not work properly.
I can confirm that this version functions correctly.

Anyway, I've now got aroung to trying it with the jikes.dll implementation
of IBM's Jikes.

The effect is incredible.  Compilation speeds are reduced by a factor of
four - compared to my best previous compiler - and by a factor of six
compared to the 1.3 Javac [though MMV].  This is the fastest practical
way I have found of compiling Java from an arbitrary IDE *by miles*.

My congratulations and compliments to Jonathan Revusky for his efforts.
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