Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

"David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com> writes:

> Franck Routier <Franck.Routier@hospvd.ch> writes:
> 
> > I think this is a real bottleneck in using GNU/Linux PPC (with Java,
> > of course !)
> 
> Well, yes, that's what comes of becoming attached to proprietary
> systems.  You find that they are not portable, and that you are tied
> down to a whole series of things.

That's not the issue. Without a fast JVM or JIT, java on linux is *dog
slow*...

> > I know gcj might be a partial solution, but didn't figured out how
> > to use it.
> 
> class HelloWorld {
>     public static void main(String[] args) {    
>         System.out.println("Hello World!");     
>     }
> }
> 
> @ashland [~/tmp] $ gcj-3.0 --main=HelloWorld HelloWorld.java 
> @ashland [~/tmp] $ ./a.out 
> Hello World!
> 
> It's pretty easy, and it's free software!

Doesn't help if you've got someone else's .class files. A fast JVM/JIT
would help.

jas.