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

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> 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)

As soon as we want to hurt the people using gcj.

Andrew.