GCJ information

["Ghanta, Bose" <bose dot ghanta at stratus dot com>]

Dear Tom and Java team members,

  We have been using Gnu gcc and tools in our organization for a number of
years and very pleased with the Gnu products, ease of porting, and quality.

We are now looking into a compiler for Java language.  I would appreciate if
you can provide me information on GCJ and how it compares to Sun Java 1.3
release and Hotspot.  Also information on features improvements in GCJ.
What is the best GCJ release we can bring up?

I would appreciate your input here.  Once again, thank you for providing
GCJ (Java) compiler and class libraries as an alternative for all us to
other Java offerings including from Sun.  GCJ is free, does the job, and a
quality release!

I noticed that Gnu GCJ web page is not up to date with information on
current GCJ.  I know you are all very busy.  I would appreciate if you can
briefly compare with Sun current Java release (1.3 or upcoming 1.4).

Thank you,
Bose  
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Megacz [mailto:gcj@lists.megacz.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:41 AM
To: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: GCJ success stories (was: Re: status of gcj's boehm collector?)



Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> This sounds pretty cool.  If/when you have a web site, we'd love to
> add a link to our "success stories" page, along with some info about
> circumstances in which gcj beats hotspot! :-)

Crypto operations.

GCJ mops the floor with HotSpot when it comes to crypto.

I just finished off a lightweight SSL client implementation (43k
zipped bytecode + 83k of bouncycastle.org's crypto library, includes
embedded copies of public keys for all IE5.5-trusted root CA's).

Hotspot takes over 10 seconds to handshake, GCJ does it well under a
second. And that's not even using "-O".

  - a