Comparison table of various JVMs
(A work in progress, garnered from various opinions on #harmony/mailing-list by someone with no opinion of his own - HenriYandell)
JVM |
License |
Platform coverage |
Community |
Performance |
Debuggability |
for win32,unix; on x86,ppc,sparc,hppa; with C++ |
JIT |
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Proprietary |
OS X |
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Proprietary |
Windows/Linux |
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Tools are GPL, VM is GNU-Classpath-License |
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Proprietary |
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Proprietary |
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.Net/Mono |
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*nix: x86 |
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*nix: x86/Power PC/ARM |
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Linux (x86+PowerPC)/AIX/OS X |
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Modified ZLib |
PC, Playstation2, Xbox, Gamecube |
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Windows/Linux |
Inactive |
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Active |
Average |
JVMDI/JDWP |
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Various - SCSL/JRL |
Windows/Linux/Solaris |
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GPL/LGPL |
http://jnode.sourceforge.net/portal/node/623 Most of Java 5 except anotations , x86/AMD64 platform, seems to be kind of an OS |
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GPL |
Windows/Linux x86, Java 1.3/1.4/1.5 |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
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GPL |
Linux/x86 |
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Alpha, i386, MIPS (64-bit), PowerPC (32-bit), x86_64 |
Active |
JIT |
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