GCJ slower than JDK?

[Bryce McKinlay]

Fernando Lozano wrote:

> Testing on a directory with about 3.000 jpg files and getting about 76 
> duplicates, I found the program is three times slower when compiled 
> with gcj -O2 than when compiled and executed bu a Java SDK. 


If you'd like to post your small test program, we can take a look at it 
and see why it might be slower.

> Using gcj 2.96 and IBM Java SDK 1.3.0 under Red Hat Linux 7.1


The latest CVS GCJ will probibly give significantly better results.

regards

Bryce.