Another 646 patch and performance comparison with TOWER (solved)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com> writes:

Martin> I solved the problem, now: I use to build gcj with
Martin> --disable-shared, thus no shared conversion libraries are
Martin> built and there are no useful ones installed on the system
Martin> either.

I wish I'd know this earlier.  Static linking with gcj is still a bit
of an art.

The standard fix for problems like this one is to add a line for the
required class to gnu/gcj/runtime/FirstThread.java.  Any comments on
adding a dependency here for the ASCII encoders?

I'm going to leave my class caching patch out for now.  Perhaps I'll
check it in post-3.1.

Tom