It would be great to be GCJ compatible. Leveraging they effort with the binary ABI is a smart move and will promote more harmony instead of fragmentation between the java ahead-of-time systems.
But this raises a question, can Harmony use GCJ's binary ABI without been GPL? Rodrigo On 5/13/05, Panagiotis Astithas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob wrote: > > > >>> > >>> IMHO both JITs and pre-compiling have their place.. it > >>> depends on the application whether one is definitely better > >>> than the other. > >>> > >>> Ideally, the design of harmony would allow for people to > >>> pursue both approaches and the two could coexist peacefully. > > > > > > This is a recipe for a bloated system that never works. Also, most app > > programmers don't want to worry about the details of how their program > > is compiled. > > > > -- Bob > > And how would a componentized system with multiple configuration choices > force them to? The Sun JVM has many GC algorithms to choose from, yet > many people are unaware of it and use happily the default. > > Cheers, > > Panagiotis > > -- > Panagiotis Astithas > EBS, Electronic Business Systems Ltd. > 18 Evgenidou Street, 115 25, Athens GREECE > Phone: +30 210 674 7631 > Fax: +30 210 674 7601 > http://www.ebs.gr >
