status of gcj's boehm collector?

Wed Dec 5 13:13:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:

Adam> Well, I'm releasing the project (source and all) on New Year's
Adam> day, so if you can wait until then, you'll see it. It's clearly
Adam> noticeable.
Adam> The problem doesn't exhibit itself under HotSpot, although that's
Adam> possibly also because the GCJ version is so incredibly fast (which in
Adam> turn is partly because I use native methods to do raw writes to an X11
Adam> shared pixmap, along with liberal use of hardware-accelerated
Adam> XCopyArea()'s), so the rendering engine is able to do several times
Adam> more frames per second, meaning that more resizing-computations are
Adam> performed per second, meaning that more garbage is generated. Plus,
Adam> small pauses are more noticable since the resizes are much smoother
Adam> with GCJ.
This sounds pretty cool. If/when you have a web site, we'd love to
add a link to our "success stories" page, along with some info about
circumstances in which gcj beats hotspot! :-)
Tom