>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Barry> It must be underscored that this is a _potential_ speed gain. We Barry> actually are not certain what speed gains, if any, we will have. There's a fair amount of benchmarking data out there: http://klomp.org/mark/free-vm-benchmarks/ http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/ http://www.spindazzle.org/benchmarks/ Of course whether these benefits materialize in something like eclipse can't be determined from those pages. Barry>A third option I would also posit is: Barry> c) Take a deep, hard look at what is broken with JIT in the free Barry> runtimes right now and how we could significantly contribute to that Barry> part of free java that really needs help. The way I think about gcj these days is that it is a caching JIT with a somewhat odd procedure for deciding what to compile :-) Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
