On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/15/2010 12:57 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: >> >> Of course I do know about gcj. But I never met any person using it, >> and I don't know about any person or project really using it (as an >> example, I am not sure than any Debian or Fedora package is compiled >> with gcj into a native executable; do you know of many Debian >> packages compiled with GCJ specifically?). > > Lots of them were, but with the availability of OpenJDK and its better > standard compatibility people are moving packages to it. There's > nothing much wrong with the gcj compiler itself, although it does > generate rather bulky code, but the Classpath libraries on which its > runtime library depends are not completely Java compatible.
So our computers are spending hours and hours testing Java as part of the normal bootstrap+regtest cycle -- and nobody even uses it? :-) (Couldn't resist, sorry! :-) Ciao! Steven