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From: Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: roger@nextmovesoftware.com, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
	       gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [JAVA PATCH] Enable more array bounds check elimination
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1888240340.4921666.1468516370115.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e59d05c5-5ce6-f6b9-4fa5-acbf2465199d@redhat.com>

snip...

> 
> At a very high level, you should be aware of a general belief that GCJ's
> life is limited.  There's been various calls to deprecate it.  So
> spending a lot of time optimizing GCJ's output may not be the best use
> of your skills :-)
> 

Unless things have changed since it was last discussed, the plan was
for it to be deprecated in GCC 6 and removed in 7. If that's the case,
these changes may sadly not see a release.

It does seem that no-one has bitten the bullet of removing it yet though.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22 18:10 roger
2016-02-22 18:13 ` Andrew Haley
2016-02-22 18:18 ` Jeff Law
2016-07-13 20:07 ` Jeff Law
2016-07-14 17:12   ` Andrew Hughes [this message]
2016-07-14 17:43     ` Andrew Haley
2016-02-22 23:02 Roger Sayle
2016-02-23  9:56 ` Andrew Haley
2016-02-23 17:45   ` Andrew Hughes
2016-02-24  1:11     ` Roger Sayle
2016-02-24  3:23       ` Andrew Hughes
2016-02-24  9:53       ` Andrew Haley

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