Native Eclipse IDE?

Question

This might be better suited as a Super User question, but since it's programming related, I put it here:

Is there any version of the Eclipse IDE available that runs as a native Windows executable, instead of as a Java program that's merely started by a .exe file?

(I'm guessing it could potentially be compiled with GCJ, so I'm wondering if anyone's already done it.)

Answer 1

I have never heard of such a thing and I have been involved in Eclipse development for many years. Why would you want such a thing? Surely not for performance as a modern JVM runs Java code on par with native code and faster in many case as JIT can optimize and re-optimize on the fly better than a static compiler.