More Java guidelines questions
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Tue Apr 29 14:25:04 UTC 2008
2008/4/28 Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > 2008/4/27 Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> > >
> > > IMHO the only reason Java bytecode exists is to make it possible to
> > > distribute "run anywhere" proprietary software while keeping the source
> > > code closed.
> >
> > No. Even originally, that isn't true.
>
> You don't honestly believe that, do you?
I do, in fact.
I think this crusade against bytecode that you're talking about is
largely at best a waste of time and resources. If you have reliable
benchmarks for specific real-world programs shipped in Fedora (i.e.
not synthetic benchmarks) where AOT compilation (be that via GCJ or
Hotspot's) is better, it might make sense to do so for those programs.
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