> perhaps you are interested in an article I just found: >> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-native.html?loc=j I have made performance comparisions of many runtime systems including GCJ: http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/ I used GCC 2.95.2 in the past evaluations, but a recent CVS version (20020115) was evaluated this time. The peak performance of GCJ seems to be comparable to IBM's and Sun's. Kazuyuki Shudo shudo@computer.org