On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, William Ahern 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.
I have seen that article. Have you looked at the memory footprint of GCJ vs. IBM's JRE? And in FreeNet the issue is latency, more than straight throughput. Smaller memory footprint helps latency. > 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. Sun's JRE v1.4 feels slower to me than IBM's JRE v1.3... Regards. Gordan _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
