Re: [swarm-hackers] Swarm in debian/ubuntu

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> From reading the
> activity library, I was just guessing that dropping JDK altogether made
> programs run faster.  I think I did some testing at one time and it was
> a few % better in the runtime.  
A few percent sounds right. 
> I compiled some programs with
> it and they seemed to be a tad slower than the ordinary Java, but I
> think Marcus thought the native code versions might outperform the
> virtual machine ones if I knew how to properly optimize Java code.  But
> that was, oh, 4 years ago...
A GCJ build does offer more control, and transparency and integration 
options but it may well be that there is no real performance difference, 
or that performance is worse with GCJ.   (I just don't know.)