Andrew Overholt wrote: > * Mat Booth <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-07-04 10:48]: >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> Peter Lemenkov wrote: >>>> 2008/7/4 Andrew Haley : >>>> >>>> [skipped] >>>> >>>>>> I'm interested because some packages still built with GCJ, and I'm >>>>>> curious why they still not rebuild with (for example) OpenJDK? >>> [...] >>> >>> They already build perfectly well with gcj, so I can't see anything >>> to be gained by changing them. >> I should think they will continue to be built with GCJ until OpenJDK >> supports ahead-of-time compiling. > > No, the AOT compilation was a GCJ-specific thing. In the JIT (HotSpot > in the OpenJDK case) world, the need for AOT compilation goes away. Well, kinda-sorta. Modern JITs undoubtedly do a terrific job, but there are some environments for which they are a little too heavyweight. I still think there's some benefit to be had from gcj, but probably not on high-powered desktop boxes. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
