On 8 Oct 2002 at 13:52, Gavin Scott wrote:

> Ernest asks:
> > Has anyone tried using GCJ the GNU compiler for JAVA on the 3000?
>
> I think the sticking point is that while the compiler is there, the
> required runtime implementation that provides the garbage collection,
> threading, and whatnot has never been successfully ported to MPE.
> Last I heard, I believe there were still some threading issues in MPE
> that preventing the GCJ runtime from being (easily) ported to MPE.

That was taken care of by the Draft 10 pthreads implementation. I
just never got around to completing the port. At this point, unless
someone wants to fund it, it probably will not get done.

Nevertheless, gcj can be used to produce bytecode as well as natively
compiled java. It used to be much faster than javac (I have not
tested it against hotstpot, so I don't know if that is still true).

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