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 ... > > 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. And Shark, the LLVM-based JIT for OpenJDK, is getting close to prime time. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq Andrew. -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
