[fedora-java] Drop GCJ AOT bits for F11?
Andrew Overholt
overholt at redhat.com
Thu Nov 20 16:43:16 UTC 2008
* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2008-11-20 11:33]:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
>
> > Back when we wrote the initial Java packaging guidelines, we said that
> > packagers *should* include GCJ AOT bits. Should we remove this
> > requirement for Fedora 11 and beyond?
> >
> > [...]
>
> This is a bit premature. We still don't have the OpenJDK JIT for PPC and
> ARM arches. We're working hard on it but it's not ready yet for prime-time.
> Without the JIT, OpenJDK is crushingly slow on these arches.
Should Smolt stats on architecture users affect this decision? It says
about 0.7% of users are on platforms without OpenJDK JITs.
http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html
Andrew
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