Re: Question of the status of GCJ

[Marco Trudel <marco at mtsystems dot ch>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Marco Trudel wrote:
> > Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > Mike Purdy wrote:
> > > > Thank you Andrew. 
> > > > This is interesting.  Does the OpenJDK allow native compilation?
> > > No.
> > But it would be possible with (relatively) less work.
>
> Relative to writing the whole thing again, maybe, but still hard.

Actually, I was talking about finishing JENC, not reimplementing GCJ. 
Reimplementing GCJ would probably be much harder.
By the way, I forgot to mention that a Java source code to Eiffel source 
code compiler automatically supports native compilation since Eiffel 
compiles to native by default (otherwise my whole mail would have been 
pointless)...


Marco

> I'd love to find an excuse to do it.  gcj is still a very high-
> performance implementation of the Java language.
>
> Andrew.