Re: [Java-gnome-developer] i have a problem..

[Dan B. <da...@mi...>]

Mexico City Boy writes:
>i dont like c programming strucure and i love java, but i love gnome's 
>preformance....will i be able to compile native apps using the java style 
>with gcj or something?

There is a separate Gname-GCJ project, if you are interested in using gcj.
In the long term I believe both groups hope that the projects will merge,
but there are differing short term goals for each, and so, for now, they
are separate.

But that notwithstanding, with Java-Gnome, you will be using the C-based
GTK, and so you'll get the same performance characteristics at that level
that you would with pure GTK (or Gnome-GCJ for that matter).

Also, the performance characteristics of a good Java VM are actually not
that far off from the performance of a typical C or C++ runtime these days.
My impression is that both Kaffe and Japhar (the two actively-developed
open source VMs that I am aware of) still have a ways to go in terms of
performance tuning, but both the latest Sun and IBM VMs are quite peppy.

-dan