Re: What is the EndOfLife of GCJ-4.2.x or GCJX-4.2.x when appears Harmony?

[Andrew Haley <aph at littlepinkcloud dot com>]

Anny Blackyew writes:
 > Apache's Harmony's DRLVM's Jitrino can kill GCJ-4.2.x.
 > 
 > Jitrino.JET: JIT Fast Bytecode Compilation with almost no optimizations.
 > Jitrino.Optimizer: Optimizing JIT compiler.
 > 
 > svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/harmony

"Anny Blackyew"?  Are you sure?

What we all want, as free software deveopers, is freedom.

    * The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

    * The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your
      needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition
      for this.

    * The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
      (freedom 2).

    * The freedom to improve the program, and release your
      improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits
      (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for
      this.

Now, if someone comes along with a free high-performance JIT compiler
that we can use, so much the better.  To be a proper replacement for
gcj it'll have to cover all the targets we support, of course, and
it'll have to integrate well with other packages, support profiling
and debugging, and so on.  Also, it'll have to be a real community
project that people can contribute to, not just a matter of a large
company throwing their software over the wall.

Personally speaking, I'm delighted that people are freeing their
software.  It might have someting do do with the way we've shown that
we can run applications written for the Java(tm) platform using only
free software.

Andrrew.