Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.
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There is nothing current published out there. Mind you, the license of Sun's JVM prohibts you from publishing such information anyway. Anecdotal evidence suggests that free runtimes can be a few thousand times faster than the JDK on specific tasks, but they can also be a few times slower. So it depends a lot on the task at hand atm.
Feel free to join in the fun and help us make Kaffe, Classpath and gcj faster. My plan for the future is a mixed mode engine for Kaffe which uses gcj-ed class library, state of the art interpreters, quick jitters, and again gcj for the hottest code. gcj hackers are working on a binary ABI for gcj, and I'm slowly dragging Kaffe towards using GNU Classpath, so that the transition will be easier.
We'd need more volutneers for that to happen sooner