Where's native Eclipse?

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 04:06:36 UTC 2009


Hi,

* Noel <inkybutton at gmail.com> [2009-01-28 22:50]:
> I heard that back in FC4, Red Hat compiled the 
> Java-based Eclipse into native machine code,
> making it quicker to start and run.

A bigger reason was because we didn't have a JIT so ahead-of-time
compilation was our only real option.  We now have OpenJDK.

> What happened to that? I can't find it in F10...

Eclipse is still in Fedora.  We don't ship the gcj bits for it, but it's
still there.

Andrew




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