Benchmarking free VMs Did some benchmarks to compare the free java like environments out there. GNU gcj is just very fast. Without even trying to use any optimization flags (just -O2) it out performs all others by a very large margin. Since it is based on the GCC: GNU Compiler Collection it is also available […]
Gnome and Kaffe Happy! Made kaffe love java-gnome again. This is nice since debugging is still easier with kaffe then with gij when you have to use traditional byte code applications. It would be nice though if java-gnome could be compiled into a native library with gcj. That way you could just use gdb to […]
Snark, Gnome, GCJ That was fun! Made a bittorrent client and tracker (Snark) in java which can be compiled with gcj to a native binary. And using the java-gnome bindings it was fairly easy to give it a Gnome GUI that integrates nicely with the rest of my desktop. The best thing is that this […]
More Eclipse Slashdot published a story about Eclipse running on our free java platform. But I missed all the fun because I was out of town. We got more then 25.000 “visits”, 150.000 hits and 10GB of data traffic. Ouch. But now a lot more people know about this milestone :) Jeroen Frijters took the […]
Free Eclipse! The last couple of days have been really nice. This weekend two of my friends, Vincent Partington and Erwin Bolwidt come over for a weekend of free software hacking. They were both really enthusiastic about Eclipse for developing in java. Since Tom tromey already mentioned that he got Eclipse starting up once using […]
GCJ 3.3 Did an a lot of testing and rebuilding of the GCC: GNU Compiler Collection. That is such a big project and my machine is so slow… But it seems that at least GNU gcj 3.3 is already in good shape. Made lists of Mauve testresult status and Other testsuite failures. Two months will […]
GCC 3.3 Yeah! GCC: GNU Compiler Collection has branched for 3.3. I am really excited since at least GNU gcj 3.3 is a big improvement over 3.2. And it opens the door for exciting new development for 3.4. GNU Classpath has implementations of java.awt, java.util.prefs and java.util.logging that are all waiting to be imported into […]
GNU Crypto GNU Crypto has fastly grown to a full blown crypto library for java. It is now also a java security provider. So we have been solving all the bugs in GNU Classpath that prevented security providers to work. And it seems we are now almost there. And GNU gcj produces really fast crypto […]
More Progress Anthony Green is my hero! He is doing what robilad was suggesting. If the mountain doesn’t come to the compiler, you bring the compiler to the mountain. He setup rhug a collection of java packages built with gcj. The current list of packages is nice and long. He now also made rhug RPMS […]
Progress Did I complain about not enough progress in the free java community? I probably spoke to soon :) Today I (with help from Andrew Haley) added a patch to GNU gcj for StackTraceElement support. Which means that we now have usefull exception chaining and that you can get at some nice meta information when […]