Found on the harmony mailinglist: > we recommend they start to contribute by submitting Classpath patches (which we could kindly call “Classpatches” :-) Well, since Apache was “a patchy server” this would not be quite out of league :)
The Auto-vectorization with gcj looks exciting. If this can be made to work for java source files (and it looks like it is almost there already) then we will see some very nice speedups. Auto-vectorization in GCC has some examples in C and Fortran that GCC supports now. There is also the GCC Autovectorization Enhancements […]
Finally some nice press about our OpenOffice/GCJ community work. GCJ is now also mentioned on the OpenOffice.org homepage. Please help out if you can. Taking a little time off-line. I’ll be back answering email after the weekend.
Just got a thank you email from Richard Stallman about our progress with OpenOffice 2.0 and GCJ 4 for both communities. The FSF has also updated the text at http://www.fsf.org/news/open-office-java.html to better reflect our current status: Volunteers needed to build, test and package free OpenOffice 2.0 The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test […]
Posted some thoughts on how GNU Classpath hackers can help Harmony. Sven then did a little dance! These guys are cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet.
Yes, that announcement wasn’t really well coordinated. But I tried to make my views clear on the mailinglist. Please read and enjoy. I just don’t have much time this weekend, but I do hope this will work out great. Update: Posted about Harmony! to the GNU Classpath mailinglist. With links to: The State of World […]
The latest numbers from David Gilbert about GNU Classpath and Mauve progress are in (yes, I am behind on email): Also forgot to mention that GNU Classpath 0.15 was released last week. Optimized nio and nio.charset plus io streams integration leading to large speedups in character stream performance. To complement this new framework a native […]
Happy news for those following the OpenOffice.org 2.0 melodrama. Caolan made the new document Writer wizards working under gcj. He also has a list of bugs, patches and feature requests needed for better support.
We might soon need a bigger planet! Thomas Fitzsimmons now has a blog that is aggregated on planet.classpath.org. Welcome Tom! And Mark Howard got a fresh new blog. He had an old blog on the planet earlier, but I somehow missed his movement announcement. Sorry Mark. If you are reading this on the planet please […]
Pleasantly surprized by all the documentation on java-gnome. It has a quick primer, a full tutorial, a java-gnome and Glade guide and a special tutorial on TreeView (which is good because TreeView is so powerful that it is daunting to know where to start), full api reference (not yet generated with gjdoc though), and lots […]