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Re: Compiling Netbeans with GCJ?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Sean Robert McGuffee <sean dot mcguffee at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:26:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Compiling Netbeans with GCJ?
- References: <C9F98626.42A0%sean.mcguffee@gmail.com>
On 05/18/2011 07:20 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote:
> Is the Classpath library that gcj uses something that could be updated to
> have everything Netbeans needs? Netbeans has grown on me in functionality.
> It's just that it uses like 2 gigs of memory and is often very slow when
> many files are open. I imagine if there ever were a case for gcj's
> existence, a non-interpreted version of Netbeans might be it.
Please don't top-post on the gcc lists.
Sure, Classpath could be updated to have everything Netbeans needs,
but it might be a multi-year task; I just don't know. I also don't
know if a gcj-compiled version of Netbeans might really be
faster/smaller than running on OpenJDK. Probably not.
Andrew.
> On 5/18/11 4:34 AM, "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17/05/11 19:16, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Has anyone compiled netbeans with gcj?
>>> If so, can you please post your method?
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> I'm sure gcj could compile Netbeans, but I am not at all sure that
>> the Classpath library that gcj uses has everything Netbeans needs.
>> Definitely not a first gcj project.
>>
>> Andrew.
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