JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
Seeing as nobody is reading the fine text* Only 64bit Linux on AMD64 is supported, so no ARM or Android support currently.* Files must be ran on computers they were compiled on, or identical hardware* Still needs GC, only G1 and Parallel GC are supported* No dynamic byte code (Lambda Expressions, Dynamic Classes, etc.)* The only supported module is java.base* No decrease to JVM start up times* Still need the JVM* Some decrease to spin up as there will be less JIT passes that require stopping the world.Effectively this just lets you pre-load .class files into the codecache directly rather then running the ~10k initial byte-code passes before they'd receive a JIT pass and that would happen.Lastly .so is just used as a container so I doubt we can expect to dynamically link against AOT compiled Java in C/C++/Rust land.