what's the brief grand-plan for java ?

[Andrew Haley]

Mat Booth wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Caolan McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
>> What's the three liner for java openjdk/icedtea/libgcj in the fedora
>> future ? is it...
>>
>> Port icedtea to all platforms that libgcj supports, move to icedtea as
>> default when stable and drop ahead-of-time-gcj-compiling ?
>>
>> Or is it planned to always aot compile stuff by default and continue to
>> support using gij as java ?

> 
> Or secret option number three: Getting openjdk to support compiling
> aot before dropping support for gij?

That's right.  On some systems the advantage of precompilation could
be considerable.  At the moment, though, LLVM looks more promising.

Andrew.