Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Lew" Subject: Re: gcj 4.2.1 entails "Un Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.databases Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.databases In-Reply-To: <482b78e8$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <482b78e8$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 43 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:21:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303917711 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:21:51 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:21:51 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.databases:117 To: comp.lang.java.databases Christian wrote: >> I wrote a java-application that uses mysql-connector-java-5.1.6- >> bin.jar and does well as long as Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, >> Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_15-b04) executes the bytecode. I tried >> to gain some extra-speed by compiling native. Given that Java Hotspot runs at approximately the same speed as natively compiled code for the most part already, how much more speed could you conceive of getting? Arne Vajh|+j wrote: > You mean you want to lose some speed by using gcj ? Oh, of course. > GCJ only supports some of Java 1.4.2 (not 1.5) and have lots of bugs. Their own website only claims that it > ... supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus some 1.5 additions. It supports "most" of the libraries and only "some" of the 1.5 "additions" (whatever they mean by that). Apparently your JDBC driver library isn't among "most" of the ones supported. > So you get: > - less features > - more bugs > - worse performance > by using it. > > Easy choice ! It's funny how GCJ has not improved at all since I first heard of it some seven or eight years back, it seems. -- Lew --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24