On 10/14/07, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Florian Philipp wrote: > > I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and > > therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native > > binaries, am I correct? > > gcj can compile java code directly to machine code, and I'm pretty sure > that the Sun compiler just compiles to byte code. I have no experience > with gcj though, so I can't answer your second question... > > > I wonder how I can change that. Just re-emerge gcc with USE="gcj" and > > all packages containing java code? Is it even a good idea?
Probably not, but you could always try it and report back to the list... :o) Nothing that needs to work with a class loader, like applets do, will work. I would expect some problems with introspection. Moreover, last I tried it, there were buckets of incompatibility with the Java libraries. Maybe it's more mature now. Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
