[fedora-java] Drop GCJ AOT bits for F12?

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 17:11:18 UTC 2009


Here is the original thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2008-November/msg00021.html

So, shall we or shall we not?

* Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

Any progress on these parts?


Orcan




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