hello?

Fri Oct 9 16:37:00 GMT 1998

Well if it's any consolation, we did the GCJ integration for Kaffe a while
back and it boosts performance of some trivial test (x86) by about a factor
of two - which isn't bad (though Kaffe's JIT isn't best-of-breed these
days).
At some point we'll roll the GCJ (JC1?) patches into the source tree but
there's still a few issues we need to resolve - first off we have to patch
the compiler to match the current internal Kaffe structure (it's pretty
damn close unsuprisingly but not a perfect match), then we have to get a
couple of bugs fixed with GCJ - sync methods don't work so far as I can
tell, and exceptions, at least on my Redhat Linux x86 box, don't work
repliably and will often abort() ... but I can make this happen with C++
too so I suspect its a more general problem and not a Java specific one.
Still it all pretty fun stuff - I've been running with a Klasses.so and it
great!
Cheers
Tim
Brian Miller wrote:
> I consider GCJ to be one of the most important projects in software
> today. I too am puzzled by the absence of traffic here; don't we know a
> pending breakthrough when we see one? I look forward to email in this
> list someday announcing the ability to generate executables without java
> source, without fees, and without restrictions as to which of the major
> platforms can be targetted.

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