what's the brief grand-plan for java ?
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Fri May 9 16:59:06 UTC 2008
Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> That's right. On some systems the advantage of precompilation could
>> be considerable. At the moment, though, LLVM looks more promising.
>
> More important than compilation model in my mind is if we want to
> continue supporting GCJ, is for it to use the OpenJDK class library;
That is a big task. The simplest way to do it, I suspect, is to enable
the OpenJDK runtime to load gcj classes rather than to adapt the OpenJDK
class library to gcj. This sounds rather counter-intuitive, but the
interface between class library and virtual machine is not at all
portable or well-documented, and it is complex.
> when I tried GCJ in the past I had problems with incompleteness or
> bugs in Classpath, I never had an issue with the way code was
> generated.
I agree.
Andrew.
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