[fedora-java] Drop GCJ AOT bits for F12?

[Conrad Meyer]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 10:11:18 am Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Here is the original thread:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2008-November/msg000
>21.html
>
> So, shall we or shall we not?
>
> * Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > Back when we wrote the initial Java packaging guidelines, we said that
> > > packagers *should* include GCJ AOT bits.  Should we remove this
> > > requirement for Fedora 11 and beyond?
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > This is a bit premature.  We still don't have the OpenJDK JIT for PPC and
> > ARM arches.  We're working hard on it but it's not ready yet for
> > prime-time. Without the JIT, OpenJDK is crushingly slow on these arches.
>
> Any progress on these parts?
>
>
> Orcan

http://gbenson.net/ <-- That's the guy working on it. It seems to be making a 
lot of progress, but I don't know if it's ready to ship (probably not?).

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>