Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Bob Ham
hOn 12 Mar 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > True - but Gcj *does* supply a VM in the traditional (java) sense. > I guess not enough people know this. Indeed, I am one of them. > Gcj aims to be a *complete* Java solution. As I say, I had no idea. I thought gcj was purely a compiler project, which mea

Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Per Bothner
Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010312 03:25]: > I was under the impression that Gcj's main purpose was to build a java > compiler, The purpose is to be a Java implementation which is *based* on ahead-of-time-compilation - but it does include a VM. Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because g

Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Bob Ham
hOn 12 Mar 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > True - but Gcj *does* supply a VM in the traditional (java) sense. > I guess not enough people know this. Indeed, I am one of them. > Gcj aims to be a *complete* Java solution. As I say, I had no idea. I thought gcj was purely a compiler project, which me

Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Per Bothner
Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010312 03:25]: > I was under the impression that Gcj's main purpose was to build a java > compiler, The purpose is to be a Java implementation which is *based* on ahead-of-time-compilation - but it does include a VM. Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because

kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Seth Arnold
* Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010312 03:25]: > I was under the impression that Gcj's main purpose was to build a java > compiler, as opposed to Kaffe's which was to build a VM, having KJC as > an aside. Did I miss something? Because gcj can compile directly to native machine code, gcj can compet

kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Seth Arnold
* Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010312 03:25]: > I was under the impression that Gcj's main purpose was to build a java > compiler, as opposed to Kaffe's which was to build a VM, having KJC as > an aside. Did I miss something? Because gcj can compile directly to native machine code, gcj can compe