GCJ Benchmarkes

Mon Nov 27 14:38:00 GMT 2006

Marco Trudel wrote:
> Did anyone benchmark GCJ? I'm searching for some good tests 
> to compare GCJ to a 1.5 Sun JVM. So far I found this benchmark: 
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html
> It will run about 1.2 times faster on GCJ compiled applications than 
> with a Sun JVM.

The reason GCJ is faster than the Sun JVM is most likely because GCJ's
floating point handling is not spec compliant.
Full disclosure: IKVM "suffers" from this too.
Regards,
Jeroen