Compile Nightly, Run Faster - well. Nice idea, but for me it's a clear indication that it's high time today's programmers learned a bit more about their craft. After all, the idea of putting bytecode compilation into "the evening hours" is pretty silly - I still prefer to keep compilation using tried and tested methods on a normal developer machine.
Just-in-Time compilers are a nice thing for languages that build on bytecode and where the target platform isn't clear beforehand, so compilation is better done on the user's machine at the time of use. But if you're already planning a batch compile run on the server machine (which can only compile for that server machine anyway, so it addresses quite different issues than a JIT), then for heaven's sake do it where it belongs, namely on the developer's machine.
Strange. Java really does spoil one's sense of programming. And something like this on advogato - well, at least the author didn't know the "locate" command either ...
Found on Advogato.