[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Apr 26 19:56:25 CDT 2004


Mon, 26 Apr 2004 @ 12:33 -0400, Caleb Shay said:

> > What about a real Java compiler?  I know that the purists hate that
> > idea, but are there any real Java compilers?  Ones that spit out native
> > code instead of JVM code?
> > 
> > In such a case, what happens to the libraries?  Are they compiled too,
> > or are they still interpreted?
> 
> gcj, part of the gcc suite. Doesn't currently support all of the java
> classes, but it's pretty damn close.  I think AWT is currently the only
> thing that isn't finished, but I could be wrong.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

Ah, nuts, I completely forgot about that:

% which gcj
/usr/bin/gcj


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