Question of the status of GCJ

Tue Feb 17 19:41:00 GMT 2009

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Marco Trudel wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Mike Purdy wrote:
>>>> Thank you Andrew. 
>>>> This is interesting. Does the OpenJDK allow native compilation?
>>> No.
>> But it would be possible with (relatively) less work.
>> Relative to writing the whole thing again, maybe, but still hard.

Actually, I was talking about finishing JENC, not reimplementing GCJ. 
Reimplementing GCJ would probably be much harder.
By the way, I forgot to mention that a Java source code to Eiffel source 
code compiler automatically supports native compilation since Eiffel 
compiles to native by default (otherwise my whole mail would have been 
pointless)...
Marco
> I'd love to find an excuse to do it. gcj is still a very high-
> performance implementation of the Java language.
>> Andrew.