Re: Is somethign wrong with gcj?

[John Wendel <john wendel metnet navy mil>]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have to ask, because i was running Azuerus on my pspage machine ,
> 800 MHz and 256MB of ram, and it ws simply killing the machine. X took
> mins to wake up after falling asleep. The cursor frequenlty wouln't
> move, the machine was basically unuseable + torrent performance was
> dismal.
>
> As per suggested on the mailinglist, installed Sun java (based on
> intructions from fedorafaq.org) and wow, I have literally have had a
> near 10 fold performance increase. I can use the machine as if Azuerus
> isn't even running. Plus where as before I was gettign about 8KB/s I
> am hitting over 100 KB/s. Where as portions of the GUI did't work, it
> all works.
>
> So I have to ask...what's wrong with gcj?
>
> Peace.

GCJ is still under heavy development. It works for many applications 
but it obviously needs a lot more work before it's ready for serious use.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ for the latest status.

Regards,

John