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RE: GCJ adoption and improving our "PR"
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans dot boehm at hp dot com>
- To: "'Bryce McKinlay'" <mckinlay at redhat dot com>,Erik Poupaert <erik dot poupaert at skynet dot be>
- Cc: Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe dot org>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:57:58 -0700
- Subject: RE: GCJ adoption and improving our "PR"
> From: Bryce McKinlay
> GCJ has unique benefits that should be emphasized - like:
>
> - It allows you to write applications in Java that behave, look, and
> feel just like any other "native" application.
> ...
I think it would be nice if some Linux distributions started including gcj
compiled versions of some standard desktop tools. Especially for small security
sensitive applications that seems to make lots of sense (no buffer-overrun errors).
It may have to wait for the new, more stable, ABI.
And there's a (not exactly security sensitive) desktop calculator I'd be happy
to volunteer for this model :-) .
Hans