Configuring Zero-assembler with the Shark compiler to use OpenJDK

Zero-assembler HotSpot port is the default Java VM for all newly-built OpenJDK instances on ARM prior to Java 8. It is the default Java VM for quite a few JIT-unsupported platforms. However, there is an effort to bring JIT power to it, named Shark.

Getting ready

We may need a real or emulated ARM device, which has Linux and any Java environment installed. We need Java to perform a javac compilation, which is a necessary part of the IcedTea building process.

How to do it...

  1. Let's download an IcedTea source.
    wget http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-<icedtea_version>.tar.gz

    It will download an archive.

  2. Then, you can check a checksum.
  3. Let's unpack it and copy it into the ...

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