Re: Question of the status of GCJ
Bryce McKinlay <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marco Trudel wrote: > > Andrew Haley wrote: > >> Mike Purdy wrote: > >>> Thank you Andrew. > >>> This is interesting. Does the OpenJDK allow native compilation? > >> > >> No. > > > > But it would be possible with (relatively) less work. > > Relative to writing the whole thing again, maybe, but still hard. > > I'd love to find an excuse to do it. gcj is still a very high- > performance implementation of the Java language. Such a merge could proceed gradually, along similar lines to the original Classpath-GCJ merge. It would be a lot of work to merge all the way down to java.lang, but higher level packages, such as AWT/Swing, should be able to plug in relatively painlessly and provide a lot of benefit. I guess the major stumbling block is persuading the FSF and/or Steering committee to allow the OpenJDK code in the GCC repository - otherwise this work would have to proceed in a forked tree. Bryce