Why gcj? WAS: Re: Benchmarks (who has the fastest free VM)

[Christopher Granade]

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Michael Koch wrote:
| I currently search some performance comparisons for a german company
| which thinks about switching to gcj.
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| Michael

I'm new to the list, so excuse me if this is naive, but I don't quite
understand the idea of gcj. It seems on the surface that precompiling
defeats the purpose of Java itself: portability. If someone could please
elaborate, I would much appriciate it.
- -Chris

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