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* Sven Köhler (skoehler@×××.de) wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> many many ebuilds (dev-java/ant for example) download the source, and |
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> compile it. In my eyes, this is unnecessary. ByteCode will be |
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> JIT-compiled anyway, and all the java-compilers from sun or |
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> blackdown-jdk's produce pretty much the same ByteCode. An exception may |
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> be jikes, but it has more bugs than problem it solves, and is not longer |
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> under development. |
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> So why did you decide, that ant for example should be compiled instead |
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> of simply downloading the binary distribution? |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~karltk/projects/java/why-build-java-code.html |
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