Le 03/09/2018 à 17:41, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > GCJ is more portable and can create native executables for > many Java™ programs (though not those doing classloader > magic at runtime, for example) — these two reasons are still > extant, although I have heard GCJ no longer is :|
GCJ is indeed more portable, and that was useful to bootstrap OpenJDK up to the version 6 or 7. The good news with native executables is that they are coming back with GraalVM [1], another nice project I hope we'll see in Debian. Emmanuel Bourg [1] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilation/
