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changeset 720:2c1d7376ae19 cacao
* README: Added CACAO section.
| author | Christian Thalinger <twisti@complang.tuwien.ac.at> |
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| date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:22:39 +0100 |
| parents | e401c64f5195 |
| children | eebe9d6d99da |
| files | README |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README Mon Mar 17 10:22:00 2008 +0100 +++ b/README Mon Mar 17 10:22:39 2008 +0100 @@ -137,3 +137,11 @@ certificate storing, system certificate store checking, and provides some services specified by the jnlp API. +CACAO as VM +=========== + +The --with-cacao configure option replaces the libjvm.so from Sun's +HotSpot with the one from the CACAO VM. This enables the usage of +IcedTea on architectures which are not supported by the HotSpot VM, +besides the HotSpot zero port. In contrast to the HotSpot zero port, +CACAO provides a Just-In-Time compiler for various architectures.