GCJ success stories (was: Re: status of gcj's boehm collector?)

[Adam Megacz]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> This sounds pretty cool.  If/when you have a web site, we'd love to
> add a link to our "success stories" page, along with some info about
> circumstances in which gcj beats hotspot! :-)

Crypto operations.

GCJ mops the floor with HotSpot when it comes to crypto.

I just finished off a lightweight SSL client implementation (43k
zipped bytecode + 83k of bouncycastle.org's crypto library, includes
embedded copies of public keys for all IE5.5-trusted root CA's).

Hotspot takes over 10 seconds to handshake, GCJ does it well under a
second. And that's not even using "-O".

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