[kaffe] Kaffe(VM...GCJ related topic

[Linuxhippy]

Hi there!

>gcj's virtual machine is in the libraries.  With GCJ you are not as
>native as if you just programmed in C instead.  
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No, thats wrong.

GCJ compiles java to REAL native applications, but the libraries include 
also an interpreter, so that the application can also load classes which 
are not nativly compilied.

But the interpreter des not include a jit and is really very slow.

It would be interresting to know if it would be possible to put kaffe 
into the libgcj as replacement for the current interpreter.

Mfg Clemens

>On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:38, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
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>>>I dont want to FUD kaffe-folks, but please think a bit about my ideas
>>>why developing kaffe is a waste of time.
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>>>Kaffe is not powerful enough to be a java-replacement, in many part gcj
>>>beats kaffe in both, performance and plenarity.
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>>Kaffe is a virtual machine.  gcj is a native runtime package.
>>A virtual machine can, at least in theory, offer a higher degree
>>of security and reliability.  A native compiler/runtime package 
>>can, at least in theory, offer a higher level of performance.
>>Which is better depends on the application.
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>>It would probably be pretty rational to eventually have 
>>a common code base between the Kaffe and libgcj 
>>for the basic bytecode interpretaters, though.
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