Re: JVM Usenix paper got rejected

["Nic Ferrier" <nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk>]

>>> Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> 16-Dec-00 11:47:58 AM >>>

>>> Also, I don't think that the usenix people necessarily represent
the
>>> "java community".
>>
>> Probably not.  But I suspect gcj would not be popular with 
>> many Java proponents.  You might say gcj emphasizes Java 
>> as a language over Java as a platform.  Some would say 
>> that's the wrong direction for Java.  The Usenix reviewer 
>> could have been similarly biased.

>There is a bit of a stigma attached to native java compilers 
>because they traditionally prohibit dynamic class loading and 
>other nice java "language" features. Of course, gcj does not
>suffer from this limitation at all. 

Exactly! I'm *really* excited about the possibility of getting
GNU-Paperclips (webserver/servlet engine written in Java) working with
GCJ. I'm expecting it to be - ahem - fast.

That's why GCJ is so cool... pricesly because it hasn't ignored the
platform concept part of Java. 


>One day someone will plug a good JIT into it (ORP seems a 
>possible candidate) and users won't even need to know
>that they're using a "native" java!

I'm going to have a bash at getting Classpath to work with Kaffe over
Christmas. Perhaps then someone might start integrating the two again
(work did start I think).


Nic