From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T11:14:30+09:00
Subject: Re: jruby and ubuntu and libgcj

On Monday 11 August 2008 11:26:44 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> with all the Linux 
> distros now providing installable OpenJDK-based JVMs, there's hasn't 
> been much interest in getting GCJ to work.

Would there be any performance increase?

That is: Does GCJ actually compile to binary? Or is it more like a wrapper for 
some sort of VM?

My understanding is, it might at least reduce start time. But that's probably 
not a reason to put a huge amount of effort into it.