Announcement: micro-libgcj

[Boehm, Hans]

Apologies for misattributing the statement about hash synchronization.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boehm, Hans 
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:41 PM
> To: 'Joel Dice'
> Cc: Mike Emmel; Martin Egholm Nielsen; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Announcement: micro-libgcj
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Dice [mailto:dicej@mailsnare.net]
> > Still, there's no reason we can't all have what we want.  I'm 
> > happy to add 
> > support for Java-compatible synchronization as a build 
> > option.  This would 
> > be any easy task to perform while merging with the GCC tree.  
> > Same goes 
> > for anything else that I've "broken" with respect to Java.  
> > With the right 
> > pre-processor magic, we can all be happy :).
> > 
> That sounds much better to me.  Thanks.  It seems to me that 
> having a class that doesn't inherit from Object breaks the 
> standard containers, and probably introduces other problems.
> 
> When you say that hash synchronization can be slow, are you 
> talking about worst-case times?  On a uniprocessor with cheap 
> locks?  In a linux-like environment, that shouldn't be true 
> for the average case.  Worst-case execution time is another 
> thing (along with space usage for small apps and simplicity) 
> the current implementation was not optimized for.
> 
> Hans
>