Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Ben Elliston]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> IIRC, then objects in libjava were built from lists of source files as a
> means to avoid per-object overhead of libtool and some other stuff, and
> to produce a bit better code[1].  Now, at least libtool compile mode
> overhead should be a fair bit lower than back then (upstream is a bit
> better, if that turns out to be significant, GCC could sync again).

A few years ago, I hacked the libjava Makefiles to eliminate the use of
libtool of Linux systems.  It cut 20 minutes from the build time on my
(at the time) modern hardware.

Ben