[Bug java/19368] GCJ doesn't build working "hello world" on OS X

Tue Jan 11 19:00:00 GMT 2005

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-01-11 19:00 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> Indeed, it just takes forever: About 40+ seconds on my 1Gz G4 PowerBook.
> Linking with -Wl,-bind_at_load doesn't make much difference.

You have to link libgcj with -single_module to get the speed up.  This is a dyld (dynamic loader aka 
ld.so) problem and not really a java problem. 

> I thought it worked before (I don't consider 40 seconds start-up time "working")
> but perhaps I'm mistaken.

The start up time comes from looking up symbols in the dynamic library and it is really a bug in dyld 
and the only work around I know of is to link libgcj with -single_module, I can post a patch for that but 
that will take a while because there are more important things with respect with the release of GCC than 
the slow start-up time of gcj on Pather (Tiger it is fixed).

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19368