Up-to-date News on GCJ

Sat May 13 16:59:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gmail.com> writes:

Ranjit> Whichever option we agree to, can
Ranjit> someone please point out other significant events apart
Ranjit> from the two I mentioned earlier?
Maybe the existence of the libjit- and llvm-based jits?
Andrew Haley's patch that reduces GC times is definitely worth
mentioning.
David Daney's -freduced-reflection patch is noteworthy.
It looks like we picked up a Solaris 10 x86 port:
2005年06月15日 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
	* configure.host: Handle Solaris 10/x86.
(I thought we had other ports in the works, but I guess the final
patches haven't gone in. I'm thinking of Andreas' work on HPPA.)
The removal of fastjar probably deserves an entry, kind of anti-news
here :-}
I see you mention the various Classpath imports -- good! We should
link these news entries to the corresponding release notes for each
Classpath release. Each of these is a huge step forward, usually with
tons of new library code, bug fixes, etc.
I guess if we had an RSS feed for gcj news and another for classpath
news, interested folks could subscribe to both, or we could subscribe
the gcj news page to the classpath feed.
There was an article about gcj for embedded use in Linux Journal a
couple months ago. I don't have a URL offhand -- I've been getting
the paper edition. (Also the LJ editor called gcj "mostly useless",
and then in this month's letters column revealed that he is --
probably like many people out there -- uninformed as to our real
state.)
For instance I notice the last Swing news item on our page is
Graydon's initial button work in Jan 2004. This is pretty bad! So
much has happened since then... we could probably use a whole
screenshots section.
Tom