Jikes - faster Java Compiling
I found a drop-in replacement for javac called jikes. On my machine,
jikes compiles the entire SM package in 5 seconds flat compared to 33
seconds for javac. Jikes is reputed to be very conformant to the
Language and VM spec, even more so that other commercial compilers. The
best thing is, it is free. For those still using javac and find
compiling slow, jikes may be the solution. Jikes also has features to
allow it to be integrated with EMACS. Jikes is compiler only, so it is
small and does not come with any other JVM or class files. It uses the
classes that come with the jdk. The Win95/NT distribution is only 380K
compressed.
jikes
Wing Keong (thanks)