On 16:41 Mon 16 Nov , Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> What's the benefit of doing the GCJ AOT-compilation steps as defined
> in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines? Doesn't
> everyone just use OpenJDK these days? It adds a bunch of extra stuff
> to every Java spec file and makes all java packages arch-specific
> instead of noarch, which always feels a bit weird ...
>
> MEF
>
Ah the famous topic :)
I think the latest explanation for the AOT bits were that they are
still needed in ppc* architectures because openjdk is still slow on
those machines.
I don't know if this has changed since. But from F-13 on, I expect
that we will drop the AOT bit requirement since ppc* won't be primary
architectures anymore.
Orcan
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AOT is still beneficial with some applications, even on non-ppc
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