Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library, both written from scratch to provide a useful subset of Java's features. It's well-suited to cross-platform applications which need a typesafe language but must remain small and self-contained. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: The highlight of this release is a new JIT compiler designed to make more efficient use of machine registers. The generated code is 50-100% faster for CPU-intensive tasks such as image decoding, and 25-30% smaller on average. Other new features include support for Thread.getStackTrace (useful for sample-based profiling) and support for building Avian as a shared library on all platforms.

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