need to focus on java performance?

[Andi Vajda]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Tom Tromey wrote:

> FWIW this isn't that interesting of a goal for me.  I think
> compatibility is very important.  For one thing it is the way to
> leverage all the existing free java code out there.  The idea is, we
> have a free system from bottom to top, except for this one proprietary
> slice in the middle.  And our goal, as I see it, is to make this slice
> free as well.

Does this mean that, if Sun were to fully open source Java so that it were 
really free, the gcj project would be dropped ?

While a really free java would be great, losing gcj as a consequence would be 
very sad. In addition to providing a free java environment, gcj makes java 
eminently more usable by non-java programs. It breaks Java's insularity 
by making it available from C++ and other languages via CNI, embeddable, and a 
lot smaller when I'm able to statically link a shared library with libgcj
which I can do with gcj 3.4.x).

Andi..