Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
What's the benefit of doing the GCJ AOT-compilation steps as defined in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines? Doesn't everyone just use OpenJDK these days? It adds a bunch of extra stuff to every Java spec file and makes all java packages arch-specific instead of noarch, which always feels a bit weird ...
Ah the famous topic :)
I think the latest explanation for the AOT bits were that they are still needed in ppc* architectures because openjdk is still slow on those machines.
I don't know if this has changed since. But from F-13 on, I expect that we will drop the AOT bit requirement since ppc* won't be primary architectures anymore.
And Shark, the LLVM-based JIT for OpenJDK, is getting close to prime time. See http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ZeroSharkFaq
Andrew.