Re: GCJ: status report

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Fri Sep 11 1998 - 23:20:56 EDT


Tim Wilkinson writes:
> So, I have GCJ working except for exceptions (still waiting on a reply
> from the egcs-bug list to that one). I'm now using the
> '-fno-assume-compiled' which deals with most of the dynamic linking
> problems (I had to 'fix' java.lang.Class to make this work) and lets us
> mix and match JIT and GCJ code.
>
> A simple test of 'HelloWorldApp' results in runtime some about 33%
> faster - but it's still invoking the JIT for classes which generate
> exceptions and the HelloWorldApp itself - and it's not a terribly
> realistic test since mostly it's I/O - oh, and I didn't turn the
> optimiser in GCJ yet.

This is really cool stuff!!
(that's all I wanted to say :-)

-archie

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