Hello. My apologies if these questions are OT for this list. On the premise that building my own binaries could yield performance improvements versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binaries I've decided to tinker with building from source.
* My first question is "Is this a reasonable premise?" * If so, is it possible to build using Intel's compiler? * Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been released will there be an option to use it to build the JDK under Windows? * If I build on a recent Xeon with "gcc -march=native ..." would one expect to see performance differences versus the Sun(Oracle)-provided binary to justify the effort? * I have recently been tinkering with Intel's memory allocator and TCMalloc, etc. Would compiling with these be expected to a) even work and b) yield perf improvements worth the effort. Thank you, David Dabbs
