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

[Andrew Haley]

Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 April 2009 10:11:18 am Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> Here is the original thread:
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2008-November/msg000
>> 21.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?
> 
> http://gbenson.net/ <-- That's the guy working on it. It seems to be making a 
> lot of progress, but I don't know if it's ready to ship (probably not?).

Lots of progress, not yet ready.

Andrew.