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Re: gcj-compiled jigsaw is running
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcj-compiled jigsaw is running
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:15:09 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
On 30 Apr 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> I've got the W3C's server Jigsaw http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/ compiled
> with gcj and running on http://bothner.com:8011/ (though of course
> it may come done any time).
Great!
> This is just raw jigsaw, and I haven't started looking at how to
> serve servlets. Probably start with interpreted servlets.
There's nothing wrong with that. In my experience most servlet classes
are very small so there's little to gain by compiling.
> But ultimately I think we want to be able to compile a servlet to a
> shared library, and have that be loaded by an appropriate ClassLoader.
That ought to work, with the stipulation that compiled classes are
always loaded by the system classloader and can never be unloaded.
So there is an advantage to interpreted servlets, depending on the use.
Jeff