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On Sunday 24 February 2002 22:39, you wrote:
> 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.
While this is quite true, I think it's still worth it to try to make a
GCJ-compiled node in order to get around the problems of setting up a JVM
(both technically and politically). Also, the process may help spot bugs in
GCJ (in fact, MJR's early attempts have already helped do this). This may
not directly help Freenet, but it does help the Free Software community in
general, which can't be a bad thing.
- --
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program
in than some that do.
--Dennis M. Ritchie
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