Speed of Java (was: Linux on old laptop in two stages)

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/6/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I'm mildly curious about things like GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/),
> which aim to compile Java-the-language to machine code for the host
> platform (e.g., i386), rather than compiling to machine code for
> Java-the-machine.  In particular, I'm wondering what kind of impact,
> if any, it has on performance and memory usage.


I think Fedora (and OpenOffice) used GCJ to compile alot of the java apps
associated with it.  They got a big speedup and eliminated the need for a
JVM for those apps.
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