RE: jikes and Ant vs. javac 1.3

[Liu, Kenneth Albert (Kenneth)** CTR **]

I seem to recall that Jikes has better dependency checking, though -
in some cases it seems that javac doesn't recompile a class even
though a dependency changed.  Anyone else observe this?

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Glanville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:41 PM
> To: Ant-User (text)
> Subject: RE: jikes and Ant vs. javac 1.3
> 
> 
> Interestingly, I've found (my non-official and 
> non-quantitative analysis
> opinion) that javac from 1.3 is comparable, if not better 
> (sacrilege!!) then
> jikes.  Jikes CERTAINLY outperforms javac from 1.1.x and 1.2.x, but I
> believe that the javac from 1.3 has been totally re-written 
> and performs
> much better.
> 
> I have actually found that the error checking from javac 1.3 
> to be more
> strict then jikes (jikes will SOMETIMES miss things like case 
> statements
> where the case label is based on a variable, but javac 1.3 
> will catch this
> error).
> 
> Another advantage of javac 1.3 over jikes is that javac 1.3 
> fully supports
> the JPDA structure, which many debuggers use.  I.e.: if you 
> use jikes to
> compile, and then use JSwat to debug, JSwat might complain 
> about not being
> able to fully find all the debugging information.  Please confirm this
> before you take what I say as gospel.
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu, Kenneth Albert (Kenneth)** CTR ** 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: jikes and Ant vs. javac 1.3
> 
> 
> Hi folks -
> 
> I was thinking about switching to jikes for my builds.  My 
> team is currently
> using jdk1.3 (javac).
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knew of any potential pitfalls I 
> can be aware of
> (either with Ant or jikes itself) before making the switch.
> 
> Also, besides the speed increase, what else can I expect from 
> jikes.  I
> think it has better dependency checking, if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Ken
>