Rmi compilation to native code

Fri Feb 22 07:17:00 GMT 2002

> >Hello. I am inquiring about the rmi implementation under gcj. Will 
> >gcj compile my rmi programs? I know that gcj supports serialization, 
> >so I would assume rmi works as well. 
>>> Yes, RMI is supported in the CVS version of libgcj.
>> >If rmi would compile to native code will the performance boost 
> >significatnly?
>>> Maybe. The serialization implementation in libgcj does have performance 
> problems, so its possible that these would cause RMI to be not much 
> faster or even slower than the JDK implementation. AFAIK, nobody has 
> done any benchmarking of serialization or RMI so its hard to say how 
> well we do in that area. I would be very interested to hear your 
> experiences if you want to give it a try.

What about functionality of serialization. Does it work? Is it compatible with the other JDK's?
John Leuner