On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:07:59PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote: > 4) Would it be possible for the GCJ compiled binaries to be made available > for Linux/FreeBSD in addition to the daily .jar image? Most distributions > still do not come with GCC v3, and even for those that do, latest snapshots > of GCC/GCJ v3 seem to be required to make things work. Since the CVS snapshot > seems to have the required Makefile sections for GCJ building, it would be > VERY nice to have a downloadable statically linked binary available for > download. A dynamically linked binary with a sufficiently up-to-date GCJ > library would be even nicer, even if it is without any sort of fancy > packaging.
there was a recent ibm developer works article that showed gcj natively compiled apps to *not* be any faster than those run in a jvm; they ran much slower, even. at this point there seems to be a lot of overhead in the gcj environment. try pursuing this in a few years when things mature... or maybe the folks who argue jit can be faster than static compilation really are right ;) i think v1.4 of the java spec has a re-worked IO layer/API. java tries to make things elegently simplistic, or is it simplistically elegent, but it seems it has a ways to go before it can lower the cost that [generally up front] is associated w/ that model. _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
