Re: [fedora-java] Is GCJ still really necessary?
Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> What's the benefit of doing the GCJ AOT-compilation steps as defined
> in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines? Doesn't
> everyone just use OpenJDK these days? It adds a bunch of extra stuff
> to every Java spec file and makes all java packages arch-specific
> instead of noarch, which always feels a bit weird ...
Ah the famous topic :)
I think the latest explanation for the AOT bits were that they are
still needed in ppc* architectures because openjdk is still slow on
those machines.
I don't know if this has changed since. But from F-13 on, I expect
that we will drop the AOT bit requirement since ppc* won't be primary
architectures anymore.
And Shark, the LLVM-based JIT for OpenJDK, is getting close to
prime time. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq
Andrew.