On 16:41 Mon 16 Nov , Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > > What's the benefit of doing the GCJ AOT-compilation steps as defined > > in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines? Doesn't > > everyone just use OpenJDK these days? It adds a bunch of extra stuff > > to every Java spec file and makes all java packages arch-specific > > instead of noarch, which always feels a bit weird ... > > > > MEF > > > > Ah the famous topic :) > > I think the latest explanation for the AOT bits were that they are > still needed in ppc* architectures because openjdk is still slow on > those machines. > > I don't know if this has changed since. But from F-13 on, I expect > that we will drop the AOT bit requirement since ppc* won't be primary > architectures anymore. > > Orcan > > -- > fedora-devel-java-list mailing list > fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list AOT is still beneficial with some applications, even on non-ppc architectures -- ecj being the prime example. -- 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
