On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ian Clarke wrote:

> I haven't heard anything about the GCJ stuff that MJR was working on,
> what happened to it (it was cool)?

We (OK, Hal ;) fixed BigInteger [1], and a problem with inner classes of
inner classes which subclass other inner classes was trivially worked
around by Tavin in the new Client.

Unfortunately it seems that GCJ sucks. Under heavy load it will start
doing nasty things, IIRC, and the crypto is slow compared to IBM. (Long
ago I wrote a semicomplete GMP implementation of the MPN support, which
really helped. I'll forward it to them ASAP.)

It's probably sufficient to run an average node, though, and I'm
optimistic that its performance and stability will improve.

[1] They haven't yet committed the fix to BigInteger(byte[]), AFAICT. I'll
bother them about it today -- he said he'd put it in his TODO.


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