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

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Wed Apr 15 17:30:55 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 18:21 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

At what point do we decide to drop gcj bits regardless of the status of
Shark?  (I'm honestly asking here and not trying to troll)

Andrew




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