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Re: A first...
On 09 Jan 2003 11:21:40 -0700
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Franco" == Franco Catrin L <fcatrin@tuxpan.cl> writes:
>
> >> It's pretty easy - I just built one. Startup time is almost
> >> instantaneous, and it's using 15MB, most of which is shared.
>
> Franco> That's really god considering that most of it is shared. So,
> Franco> launching another gcj compiled application will just increase
> Franco> this use a _bit_ more?
>
> Yes. When you compile your Java code to a .so, the executable code is
> shared among all the processes that use it. This is an important
> benefit of gcj.
Well, I forgot that the application compiled with gcj is in fact a native
application. God damn! :-D~~~
> >> I believe the license (CPL 1.0) is liberal enough for inclusion in a
> >> free Linux distro.
>
> Franco> Perfect, and what about Eclipse?
>
> We have RPMs for it. When they will be released, and what product
> they'll be put in, is still under discussion.
Great!
> Currently we don't compile Eclipse with gcj. I've been looking at
> that a bit lately, but I don't have anything to report yet. It is
> pretty complex. Currently it looks like we'll need to modify Eclipse
> to make it fully work.
Well, Eclipse is a big monster!
I think that is enough good to focus in SWT right at this time.
IMHO, having technologies such as SWT and GCJ could have a great impact on
custom applications development for Linux in the desktop. We can begin
writing simple applications today while the rest of the world still uses
Windows, and then make a graceful switch to Linux whithout loosing
currently developed applications (I'm thinking in business specific
desktop applications). And they will run as native applications!
I wrote a document about that, focused in our current situation in Chile,
but may be it could be applicable in other countries as well. It's
avalaible in the documentation section of http://linux.ubiobio.cl. It's
in spanish, but I can translate it in english if anyone is interested.
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--
Franco Catrin L.
TUXPAN