hello?

[Tim Wilkinson]

Brian Miller wrote:

> Actually I think Sun's HotSpot JIT will soon be the leader to beat,
> not Symantec's JDK 1.1.6 JIT.  On one hand JIT will always have runtime
> overhead that GCJ might avoid.  On the other hand HotSpot's profiling
> ability (of which I know nothing) may allow optimizations based on
> runtime history that are unavailable to GCJ.  As a user, I don't care
> who wins, so long as it makes Java competitive.  GCJ's set of targetted
> platforms will likely always bigger than that of Sun's.

 Last I heard from Sun the people in Javasoft are expecting HotSpot to be DOA - might have been the best once
but by the time they ship they'll have lost the edge.

Just so long as they don't go off and make more Java chips .... :)

Cheers
Tim

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