Peter Naulls wrote:
> 
> > > There are a number of issues here but basically the source that is being
> > > released, being that the Java engine is missing (which also removes
> JavaScript,
> > > and a whole load of other stuff - mail has some interdependancies for
> > > example...).
> >
> > Well, but wouldn't it be possible to use any other Java engine like
> > kaffee or guavac? I always thought Java is platform independent ;)
> 
> guavac is a compiler, not a VM :)  Which, Incidentally I'm trying to
> compile under RiscBSD along with Chockcino.  Kaffe is a much bloatware
> as JDK (IMHO) *grin*.

Cretainly some even quite primitive JITting JVMs have been seen to give
nearly an order of magnitude performance improvement over Kaffe. I
wonder how much of Kaffe's 'bloat' comes from it supporting multiple
architectures?

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