Re: [Java-gnome-developer] JVM benchmarks: kaffe takes the cake

[Tiago C. <cog...@li...>]

On Qua, 2003-11-12 at 15:18, Elias Martenson wrote:
> Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
> 
> > Yes, i agree that the 2D functionalities of the upcoming version of
> > sun's jvm is not something relevant to java-gnome, more important are
> > system responsiveness and a good JNI performance. IMO we need a JVM that
> > has a low memory footprint and good execution speed, i didn't see any
> > recent becnhmarks but GCJ and Kaffe seem to be a good option in either
> > cases.
> 
> I find Sun Java to be superiour in every respect. It's the fastest, it 
> (obviously) has the lastest stuff first, and it it only _very_ slightly 
> larger than kaffe (if the numbers posted are accurate).
> 
> GCJ has it's own slew os problems, inability to do reflection being the 
> largest one.
> 
> Elias
> 
Sun's JVM is superior to GCJ and Kaffe, but nowadays these Open options
are way more mature and present as a viable choice, such fact didn't
happened in a few months ago. GCJ has a great advantage: being able to
compile classes to native code is great to package/destribute and your
program (in a single platform) and don't forget that there are alot of
Java alergics out there (especially in the Linux community) that don't
want anything to do with java classes and jars, also there's the Swing
factor which gives a bit of a bad impression in all java programs that
they are slugish. This way when they open up our java-gnome program
they'll think it's an ordinary C/Gnome program.
Btw, i don't know if anyone tried this, but it seems very easy to
compile Java-Gnome programs to native code with this tool:
http://www.freestyler-toolkit.org/