Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-03 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Tue, 3 May 2005 15:08:49 +0200, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: >> I think some of upstream agrees with me. I don't think calling it bcabi >> was ever officially intended. >> >> I think mjw (who is that, Mark?) recommended

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > I think some of upstream agrees with me. I don't think calling it bcabi > was ever officially intended. > > I think mjw (who is that, Mark?) recommended against both -jbi and > -bcabi and for -gcj. I'm on board with that if we can get

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-03 Thread Jerry Haltom
I think some of upstream agrees with me. I don't think calling it bcabi was ever officially intended. I think mjw (who is that, Mark?) recommended against both -jbi and -bcabi and for -gcj. I'm on board with that if we can get other agreement. On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 07:43 +0200, Michael Koch wrote

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Koch
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:24:32AM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:39:00 +0200, > Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, both -jbi and -bcabi are really bad choices because they are > > somewhat obscure technical terms that don't really help the users to > > know

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:30:53PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 21:30 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > > We can decide to pubild only some archs to native. E.g. native libs for > > Eclipse > > make little sense on arm. > > Why does it make less sense on arm then on any

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:26:19PM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > I have no idea what Ubuntu is going to do, as I ran out of time to do > it. I will assuradly do what Debian does, so I'm here to influence > Debian's decision. ;). Either way, I think bcabi is a stupid name. Even > spelled out it doesn

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-05-02 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:39:00 +0200, Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, both -jbi and -bcabi are really bad choices because they are > somewhat obscure technical terms that don't really help the users to > know what is special about the package. In a future release the bcabi > will also

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 22:00 +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:35:56 +0100, > Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You are right, its not always a gain. Tom Tromey told me that he is > > aware of one case where the native library is slower then interpreting > > the j

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 21:28 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:45:29 -0500, > > Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Michael Koch wrote: > > > | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Ha

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 21:30 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > We can decide to pubild only some archs to native. E.g. native libs for > Eclipse > make little sense on arm. Why does it make less sense on arm then on any of the other architectures? Cheers, Mark signature.asc Description: This i

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Jerry Haltom
I have no idea what Ubuntu is going to do, as I ran out of time to do it. I will assuradly do what Debian does, so I'm here to influence Debian's decision. ;). Either way, I think bcabi is a stupid name. Even spelled out it doesn't say anything "binary compatible application binary interface". Bina

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:00:54PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > About the archive space, don't forget you have to multiple the space by > the number of different arches (12 or so)!.. We can decide to pubild only some archs to native. E.g. native libs for Eclipse make little sense on arm. Mich

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:45:29 -0500, > Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Koch wrote: > > | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > > [...] > > |>I would like to name the secondary native pa

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:35:56 +0100, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:24:30AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: [...] >> Iterpreted languages hardly need me to back them up, but I think they >> have a proven track record. Taking one of the leading interpreted >> lang

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:45:29 -0500, Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > [...] > |>I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix > |>(Java Binary Interface). Some people like the na

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-04-30 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:14:58 +0100, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix >> (Java Binary Interface). Some people like the name -bcabi because that >> is what the GCJ folks tend to refer to it as. BC ABI: Binary Compatible >

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Tom Tromey
> "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-benchmar

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:30:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:10, Michael Koch wrote: > > > Hmmm, the idea has its merits. Implementationwise, it'd make more sense > > > to have $lib-jbi Build-Depend on $lib-java. The $lib-jbi would have to be > > > a sperate source,

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:10, Michael Koch wrote: > > Hmmm, the idea has its merits. Implementationwise, it'd make more sense > > to have $lib-jbi Build-Depend on $lib-java. The $lib-jbi would have to be > > a sperate source, but I imagine that cuold be a very small standard > > template, which f

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] | Are there any tests done in the past for the gain against jit or | interpretative mode ? | | Otherwise I think some testcases would be very good here: | | How much gain does it bring for architectures (like i386) - where | a

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:06:45PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > [...] > >You are right, its not always a gain. Tom Tromey told me that he is > >aware of one case where the native library is slower then interpreting > >the jar. > >Doing (c) and fixing JIT runtimes can be good,

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Michael Koch wrote: [...] You are right, its not always a gain. Tom Tromey told me that he is aware of one case where the native library is slower then interpreting the jar. Doing (c) and fixing JIT runtimes can be good, but it ist a hard work too. The Kaffe people put much efforts into this. JIT w

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:24:30AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jerry Haltom wrote: > [...] > | The main > | motivation for this is speed. There is no JIT overhead involved and it > | runs native, not interpreted. It is worth noting that the Kaf

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Haltom wrote: [...] | The main | motivation for this is speed. There is no JIT overhead involved and it | runs native, not interpreted. It is worth noting that the Kaffe folks | want to integrate support for this binary interface into Kaffe. It mu

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Jamie Jones
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:14 +0100, Michael Koch wrote: I'm just an end user, but I'd like to share my thoughts on the package naming. > > I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix > > (Java Binary Interface). Some people like the name -bcabi because that > > is what th

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Koch wrote: | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: [...] |>I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix |>(Java Binary Interface). Some people like the name -bcabi because that |>is what the GCJ

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Attention Java Maintainers: This Effects You > > > This is a recap of an ad-hoc discussion a number of Java maintainers had > a few minutes ago in #debian-java concerning our direction with regards > to including native GCJ compiled

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:13:44AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 22:05, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > > But just for discussion - wouldn't there be a third possibility ? > > (Sorry if this is a stupid question !). > > > > What about a creating a second source package which build-de

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-15 Thread David Schmitt
On Sunday 13 March 2005 22:05, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > But just for discussion - wouldn't there be a third possibility ? > (Sorry if this is a stupid question !). > > What about a creating a second source package which build-depends > on the java source package to produce the native binary. This wou

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Jerry Haltom wrote: Attention Java Maintainers: This Effects You Although I am not a DD here are my comments/questions. This is a recap of an ad-hoc discussion a number of Java maintainers had a few minutes ago in #debian-java concerning our direction with regards to including native GCJ compiled J

Re: GCJ Native Proposal

2005-03-12 Thread Jerry Haltom
Disregard this. I accidentally hit send. I am still finishing it. =( On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:04 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Attention Java Maintainers: This Effects You > > > This is a recap of an ad-hoc discussion a number of Java maintainers had > a few minutes ago in #debian-java concerning