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Re: [JAVA PATCH] Enable more array bounds check elimination
- From: Andrew Hughes <gnu dot andrew at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: roger at nextmovesoftware dot com, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [JAVA PATCH] Enable more array bounds check elimination
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- References: <4F362C11-3DAA-4A9A-AEAB-089C20B3590C@nextmovesoftware.com> <e59d05c5-5ce6-f6b9-4fa5-acbf2465199d@redhat.com>
snip...
>
> At a very high level, you should be aware of a general belief that GCJ's
> life is limited. There's been various calls to deprecate it. So
> spending a lot of time optimizing GCJ's output may not be the best use
> of your skills :-)
>
Unless things have changed since it was last discussed, the plan was
for it to be deprecated in GCC 6 and removed in 7. If that's the case,
these changes may sadly not see a release.
It does seem that no-one has bitten the bullet of removing it yet though.
--
Andrew :)
Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
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