> Would a statement by a Sun employee (provided, of course, thet such
> a license doesn't prohibit Sun from doing so) clarifying the situation
> help?
Yes.
> > What I still would not understand - however - is, why the Distros-JDK
> > (on which SUNW has made so much noise about, back in May'06) has not
> > been built with the open gcc.
>
> Perhaps they did it for performance reasons? I know *I* avoid building
> anything with gcc unless I absolutely have to.
>
> --
> Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
>
> President,
> Rite Online Inc.
Aehmm, what kind of performance is better in practical use?
[ ] gcc: It may run only at 60% of the speed it could,
when built with SUNWspro. (depending on what and how etc.)
[ ] SUNWspro: it does not run at all, because it is linked against
missing and unredistributable libs
--
Martin Bochnig
SCSA, SCNA, SCSecA, TOEFL,
Student of Maths. at TU-Berlin, marTux
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