A survey of ahead-of-time technologies in dynamic language environments.

Eclipse OMR is an open source collection of robust, reuseable components for the construction of production-ready compilers. Great progress has been made on JITBuilder, OMR's simplified interface to the compiler technology for building JIT compilers, but work on the planned interface for AOT compilation has only just begun. In this survey, we identify desirable characteristics for the design of OMR's AOT by examining how several prominent open source compilers implement AOT. We conclude by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the implementations seen, and how they might inform the final design of the OMR AOT component.