On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> 2011-04-26 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com>
>>
>> * projects.html: Use regular <h2> markup for section headers
>> instead of fake tables.
> The "Compiler improvements" section is 10 years behind on GCC's
> development (tree-ssa!). The "recently released" jMocha is from 2000
> and I can't find it anywhere for download. The "Open JVM Integration"
> is obsolete. There is very little on this page that is still useful
> information for someone willing to contribute to GCJ...
Hard to disagree, Steven. It's just that I am not to well aware of
what's happening in Java land.
I was hoping my patch made it easier for someone with more background
to update this page in terms of contents, but seeing that nobody took
action on your analysis I cooked up the patch below which I plan on
committing in a couple of days.
Gerald
2011-05-09 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com>
* projects.html: Update name of java mailing list.
(Plugin for Mozilla): Remove section.
(Compiler Improvements): Remove tree inlining item.
(Benchmark infrastructure): Remove reference to jMocha.
Index: projects.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/projects.html,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -r1.34 projects.html
--- projects.html 26 Apr 2011 20:25:34 -0000 1.34
+++ projects.html 8 May 2011 22:59:49 -0000
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
to see someone pick up and run with. If you're interested in any of
these, be sure to send a note with your questions, ideas or intentions
to the <a
-href="mailto:j...@gcc.gnu.org";>java-discuss</a>
+href="mailto:j...@gcc.gnu.org";>java</a>
mailing list. Similarly, if you would like to see a project listed
here that isn't, send a patch for this HTML file to the <a
href="mailto:java-patc...@gcc.gnu.org";>java-patches</a> list.
@@ -27,18 +27,6 @@
</p>
-<h2>Plugin for Mozilla</h2>
-
-<p>
-<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/";>Mozilla</a> is open-source web browser,
-designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. The
-Open JVM Integration project (OJI) is a Mozilla sub-project, and is
-working to extend the browser to allow Java virtual machines to be
-plugged into Mozilla. A gij based plugin would be very nice indeed
-(gijzilla?).
-</p>
-
-
<h2>Benchmark infrastructure</h2>
<p>
@@ -49,8 +37,7 @@
</p>
<p>
<a href="mailto:br...@albatross.co.nz";>Bryce McKinlay</a> has put
-together a list of some benchmarks that run on GCJ. IBM has also
-recently released a set of "micro benchmarks" called jMocha.
+together a list of some benchmarks that run on GCJ.
Building some infrastructure around these would be incredibly useful.
</p>
@@ -97,11 +84,6 @@
<h2>Compiler improvements</h2>
<ul>
- <li>We'd like gcj to do tree-level inlining like the C++
- compiler. We're most of the way there (when compiling
- from Java source code), since gcj already represents
- entire functions as trees.</li>
-
<li>Once we have tree-level inlining, we can use it to
sometimes eliminate unnecessary synchronizations.
Combined with a simple "no escape" flag, this could also
