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

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 18:40 Wed 15 Apr     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Not to mention that some packages perform better with AOT support than with the OpenJDK JIT, like ecj.
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