[fedora-java] Is GCJ still really necessary?

[Andrew Haley]

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.