On 18:40 Wed 15 Apr , Andrew Haley wrote: > Andrew Overholt wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 18:21 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> Conrad Meyer wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 15 April 2009 10:11:18 am Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > >>>> Here is the original thread: > >>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2008-November/msg000 > >>>> 21.html > >>>> > >>>> So, shall we or shall we not? > >>>> > >>>> * Andrew Haley wrote: > >>>>> Andrew Overholt wrote: > >>>>>> Back when we wrote the initial Java packaging guidelines, we said that > >>>>>> packagers *should* include GCJ AOT bits. Should we remove this > >>>>>> requirement for Fedora 11 and beyond? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> [...] > >>>>> This is a bit premature. We still don't have the OpenJDK JIT for PPC and > >>>>> ARM arches. We're working hard on it but it's not ready yet for > >>>>> prime-time. Without the JIT, OpenJDK is crushingly slow on these arches. > >>>> Any progress on these parts? > >>> http://gbenson.net/ <-- That's the guy working on it. It seems to be making a > >>> lot of progress, but I don't know if it's ready to ship (probably not?). > >> Lots of progress, not yet ready. > > > > At what point do we decide to drop gcj bits regardless of the status of > > Shark? (I'm honestly asking here and not trying to troll) > > As soon as we want to hurt the people using gcj. > > Andrew. > > -- > fedora-devel-java-list mailing list > fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list Not to mention that some packages perform better with AOT support than with the OpenJDK JIT, like ecj. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint = F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8 -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
