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AIX: The port supports AIX 5.3 and later. It is tested to be built with xlC 10. Starting with 8u40, we only support xlC 12.  Patch level 12.01.0000.0008 or higher is required.

Linux: We build and run the VM on SLES 10.3 with gcc 4.1.2, but support it on other Linux distributions, too.  Google contributed a port for the new little-endian Linux variants.

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The port is derived from a VM targeted towards server applications. Therefore it focuses on maximizing peak performance. Thus, it utilizes the high end C2 optimizing compiler of HotSpot.  First, we ported the CPP interpreter, but by now also added a port of the template interpreter.  The bigSince 8u20 big- and little-endian vairant should be built using the template interpreter.  The little-endian variant not yet supports this and thus still uses the CPP interpreter (build with --with-jvm-interpreter=cpp)., which is the default. 

The port does not support the C1 compiler.  Contributions  Contributions are welcome.

Supported HotSpot features

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